Example sentences of "have be [verb] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 2 | Erm , I think the scheme has been delayed for quite a long , well , I mean obviously it 's important to get this scheme off the ground and when people , and I 've had lots of phone calls and discussions about this , and when people have spoken to me I said , it 's important to bear in mind two things . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 5 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 6 | The playground at Brockweir school has been deserted for over a year , once a 100 children were educated at this small village school , but it was closed last year because of declining numbers . |
| 7 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 8 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 9 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 10 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 11 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 12 | His people , the Navaho , had been waiting for nearly a hundred and fifty years . |
| 13 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 14 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 15 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 16 | Some asylum seekers have been detained for over a year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Look no further than the row of foundations — most of them have been used for about a week , which is as long as it takes to realise that they are wrong for your skin . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A woman has offered to spend a hundred thousand pounds of her own money to reopen a village school that 's been closed for over a year . |