Example sentences of "already been [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them .
2 The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) .
3 If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time .
4 They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags .
5 By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time .
6 Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years .
7 Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar .
8 The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) .
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