Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 2 | ‘ THIS drama about the decline of our coal mines has been running for at least 75 years . |
| 3 | Conservative support in the larger cities has been declining for more than 25 years . |
| 4 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 5 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 6 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 7 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 8 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 9 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 10 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 11 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 12 | As the miners ' issue has developed , demands have been growing for Michael Heseltine 's resignation . |
| 13 | The past four months have been exhausting for their mother Ann . |
| 14 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 15 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 16 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 17 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 18 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 19 | As you will know the local residents and visitors have been pressing for a footpath along Gubberford Lane for many years . |
| 20 | Water companies in many EC countries have been campaigning for a review of standards , arguing that many are unnecessary and expensive to implement . |
| 21 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 22 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 23 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 24 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 25 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 26 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 27 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 28 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 29 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 30 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |