Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for nearly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although homoeopathy has been practised for nearly two hundred years in many countries of the world , very little work has been performed in the way of well-conducted clinical trials to prove and assess its efficacy . |
| 2 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 3 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 4 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 5 | There was another edition of them in 1554 , then they do not seem to have been reprinted for nearly three hundred years . |
| 6 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 7 | With these additions the unitary principle , supposedly at the heart of the Redcliffe-Maud recommendations , had been rejected for nearly 20 million people out of England 's population of approximately 45 million . |
| 8 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 9 | The man had been held for nearly four months in a blacked-out room . |
| 10 | The windows had been closed for nearly three months and the place had a dusty smell that got into your throat and made your eyes smart . |
| 11 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 12 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 13 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 14 | New homes have been found for nearly all the animals . |
| 15 | Albert Pacey made his announcement at the headquarters in Cheltenham where he 's been based for nearly six years . |