Example sentences of "[been] taking [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 2 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 4 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 5 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 6 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 7 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 8 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 9 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 10 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 11 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 12 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 13 | Negotiations have been taking place for almost two years and their failure is a big setback to the ambitions of the Edinburgh-based financial institution set up with £26 million in 1991 as a building society acquisition vehicle . |
| 14 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 15 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |