Example sentences of "year [conj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vice-president of the Huddersfield League , he had been active in promoting junior cricket in Huddersfield for over 40 years and had been organising their Joe Lumb sides since the competition started . |
| 2 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 3 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 4 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 5 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 6 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |