Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [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 | Your flat 's been bugged for the past two months . ’ |
| 15 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 16 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 17 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |