Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] for some " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 32 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 33 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 34 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 35 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |
| 36 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 37 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 38 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 39 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 40 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |