Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 3 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 4 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 5 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 6 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 7 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 8 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 9 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 10 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 11 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 12 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 13 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 15 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 16 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 17 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 18 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 20 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 21 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 22 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 23 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 24 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 25 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 26 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 27 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 28 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 29 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 30 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |