Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 2 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 3 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 4 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 5 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 6 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 7 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 8 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 9 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 10 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 11 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 13 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 14 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 15 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Throughout the 1980s more people have been working each year in Darlington . |
| 17 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 18 | ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 21 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |