Example sentences of "been [verb] for several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 32 | Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into transplantable cells has been proposed for several conditions , but treatment of immunodeficiency caused by adenosine deaminase ( ADA ) deficiency appears imminent . |
| 33 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 34 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 35 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 36 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 37 | Replacement of the undilatably strictured lower oesophagus by a short segment of left hemicolon has been practised for several decades . |
| 38 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
| 39 | Road pricing , which involves charging drivers directly for their use of the road network , has been advocated for several years as a means of reducing congestion and environmental impact . |
| 40 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 41 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 42 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 43 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 44 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 45 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 46 | These sectors have been chosen for several reasons : their services are provided for wide sections of the community ; they are major employers ; and new technology is being introduced into their central work activities . |