Example sentences of "have [been] in [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Opposition Members to paint a negative picture of TECs failing to do what they have been set up to do is not good enough , because , after all , they have been in existence for only two years . |
| 2 | Lisburn have been in existence for more than 150 years and is Ulster 's oldest surviving cricket club . |
| 3 | At the time of writing these provisions have been in operation for nearly six months and appear to be effective . |
| 4 | At present , only 18 people in the Health and Safety Executive are working on those regulations , and even though the provisions have been in operation for about two and a half years , fewer than one third of the safety cases have been accepted as being proper working documents . |
| 5 | The US electronic industries have been in recession for about four years , and Morton 's business in this area is driven by computers , telecommunications and consumer electronics including components for cars , all of which have been hit . |
| 6 | In parts of southern Africa individual units have been in use for over 20 years . |
| 7 | One author has got plastic pan scrubbers that have been in use for nearly twenty years and are still going strong to this day |
| 8 | I have still got two quilts that she made , which have been in use for as long as I can recall . |
| 9 | At least four have been in use for so long that we have no idea when they were discovered . |
| 10 | In this area , TI may have the edge inasmuch as its reinsurance treaties have been in place for much longer . |
| 11 | However , because the sampling frame consists of private households only , the survey does not cover elderly people in institutional care — for example , those living in old people 's homes and those who have been in hospital for more than six months . |