Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refuge has been supported for the past 18 years by the Swindon-based financial services group Allied Dunbar . |
| 2 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 3 | The Adult Basic Education Unit at Darlington College of Technology has been funded for the past two years by a grant from the Department of Education and Science . |
| 4 | The centre has been run for the past ten years by Richard Gill and his brother Jeff — they say that three quarters of their guests come as individuals though they are happy to take groups . |
| 5 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 6 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 7 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 8 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 9 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 10 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 11 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 12 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 13 | It has been rumoured for the past year that there are moves afoot to remove Cork from the list of Tarmac championship rounds . |
| 14 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 15 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 16 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 17 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 18 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 19 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 20 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 21 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 22 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 23 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 24 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 25 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 26 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 27 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 28 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 29 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 30 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |