Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] several " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 3 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 4 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 5 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 6 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 7 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 8 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 9 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 10 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 11 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 12 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 13 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 14 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
| 15 | This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 22 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 27 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |