Example sentences of "have been talking for [art] " in BNC.

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1 A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one .
2 The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened .
3 A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation .
4 In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile .
5 Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate .
6 You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time .
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