Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 2 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 3 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 4 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 5 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 6 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 7 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 8 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 9 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 10 | Carol Clark had been missing for almost 40 hours before her body was found at Sharpness . |
| 11 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 12 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 13 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 14 | Of course , aspects of social life have been measured for almost as long as history . |