Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 2 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 3 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 4 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 5 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 6 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 7 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 8 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 9 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 11 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 12 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 13 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 14 | It was been going for two years . |
| 15 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 16 | Shadow aid Minister Michael Meacher , who is flying to Somalia next week , said : ‘ This famine , which is worse than the Ethiopia one of 1985 , has been brewing for two or three years . |
| 17 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 18 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 19 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 20 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 21 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 22 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 25 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 26 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 27 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |