Example sentences of "[v-ing] for nearly [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 2 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 3 | The challenge to the settled order of society originated almost wholly in the political aspirations , suppressed in response to the French Revolution and continuing for nearly forty years , of the latter part of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 5 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 6 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |