Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adv] since [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has been operating independently since January 1 , and is not yet being treated as a discontinued operation by Tandy , although that should happen next time the company reports . |
| 2 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 3 | ‘ Demand has been increasing steadily since November and we 're now dealing with twice the number of applications compared to the same time last year . |
| 4 | It had been raining heavily since dawn , water sluicing the gutters of the courtyard , creating rainbows of the patches of oil on the tarmac of the consultants ' car park . |
| 5 | Certainly , the amount of land held by the nobility continued to decline after 1905 , as it had been doing ever since Emancipation . |
| 6 | Although he had never formally declared his candidacy , the Texan billionaire had been campaigning intensively since March . |
| 7 | As it is the hay and silage season , we had been going non-stop since dawn . |
| 8 | The Sunday paper 's attack fed into an older battle , that between radical theatre , cinema , publishing , and the state which had been smouldering ever since Lady Chatterley six years before . |
| 9 | We 've been flying here since September , but our wives have regularly sent out Country Living to keep us in touch . |
| 10 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 11 | The TV presenters , who have been living apart since May , sadly told of their decision to separate . |
| 12 | Samsung and Array — the buyout of Honeywell Inc 's Honeywell Signal Processing Technologies , have been working together since January 1991 on a family of video compression chips for the multimedia computing market , on a cost-sharing basis . |