Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] for century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 2 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | The Carolingians ' heartlands , that is , the area where most of their estates were clustered , and where Franks had been settled for centuries , spanned modern Belgium and the Netherlands , northern France , and western Germany , thus lying athwart the " natural " frontiers of the Ardennes forest , and the rivers Meuse and Rhine . |
| 4 | About the year 1800 , or just afterwards , my great-great-grandfather , John Hey , moved from Shelley in the parish of Kirkburton , where his ancestors had been settled for centuries , to the village of Thurlstone . |
| 5 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 6 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 7 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |