Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for a very " in BNC.

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1 It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’
2 Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall .
3 The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases .
4 It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering .
5 They have even been mistaken for a very loose cluster , though in fact they are not really associated with each other .
6 Woodland has , therefore , been managed for a very long time and we shall examine this further in a moment .
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