Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 2 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 3 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 4 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 5 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 6 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 7 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 8 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 9 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 10 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 11 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 12 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 13 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 14 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 16 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 17 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 18 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 19 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 20 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 22 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 25 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 26 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 27 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |