Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 2 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 3 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 4 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 5 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 6 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 7 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 8 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 9 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 10 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 13 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 14 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 15 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 16 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 19 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 20 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 21 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 22 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 23 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 24 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |
| 25 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 26 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 27 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 28 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |