Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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1 Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings .
2 Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class .
3 The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools .
4 Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers .
5 Erm my course has only been running for three years .
6 If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time .
7 The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long .
8 General Morillon has also been negotiating for the placing of six Muslim towns or enclaves to be put under UN protection .
9 It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week .
10 And we can assume , I think , that Fedorov has also been working for them .
11 The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular .
12 However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted .
13 NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year .
14 THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled .
15 Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 .
16 Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him .
17 Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though .
18 They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny .
19 I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence .
20 And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’
21 ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’
22 Even though the merger of these sections of capital has brought industry and finance closer together , especially through directors who sit on the boards of both industrial firms and financial institutions , the affect seems to have often been stultifying for the manufacturer .
23 The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired .
24 The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " .
25 The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high .
26 At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin .
27 We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’
28 Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for .
29 and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners
30 They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury .
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