Example sentences of "'s be [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
2 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
3 | The main problem 's been getting into one of the vehicles where four of the dead were trapped |
4 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
5 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
6 | 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 ? |
7 | He 's been going for three hours . |
8 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
9 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |
10 | According to what we 've been able to piece together using what may be dated information , it 's been working on four lines of development , all using the company 's proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
11 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
12 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
13 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
14 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
15 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
16 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
17 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
18 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
19 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |