Example sentences of "had been [verb] for some time " in BNC.
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| 31 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 32 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 33 | Over 40,000 people staged a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 30 against the decision , which had been forecast for some time . |
| 34 | Some would argue that the real problem lies in the fact that shares had been overvalued for some time , and that prices were likely to fall , and that the above events provided the impetus . |
| 35 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 36 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 37 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 38 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 39 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 40 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 41 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |