Example sentences of "only [been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 2 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 3 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 4 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 5 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 6 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 7 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 8 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 9 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |