Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 2 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 3 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 6 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 7 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 10 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 15 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 16 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 19 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 20 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 21 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 22 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 23 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 24 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 25 | I understand that the Government have not been negotiating for that . |
| 26 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 27 | The Scotsman has also established that consultants helping put the finishing touches to a feasibility study on Rosyth for Medway Ports have also been acting for Scottish Enterprise . |
| 28 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 29 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |