Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 2 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 3 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 4 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 5 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 6 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 7 | AN ASSOCIATION for all former pupils and staff of St Hugh 's School , Birkenhead , has been established for about four years and its main function is an annual reunion mass held on or near the Feast of St Hugh of Lincoln . |
| 8 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 9 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 10 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 11 | Some 355 classes and courses had been provided for about 7,000 students in 110 WEA branches and thirty Student Groups . |
| 12 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 13 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 14 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 15 | After an electrolysis current had been passed for about three months ( to charge the palladium with hydrogen ) , a small excess of heat was observed of the order of one watt or less . |
| 16 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 17 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |
| 18 | I 've been juggling for about 5 months and it 's a good place to meet new friends . |
| 19 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 20 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 21 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 22 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 23 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 24 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 25 | The smaller comprises 100,000 holders of ‘ traditional ’ with-profits policies which are invested totally in the participating fund ( none of which have been sold for about six years ) will be totally ring fenced , and both the investment profits and the ‘ infrastructure ’ profits — that is , the profits on the policy management — will remain the property of these policyholders . |
| 26 | It 's been going for about two now |
| 27 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 28 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |