Example sentences of "[been] playing [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the setbacks , Geoff has been playing golf for 16 years . |
| 2 | Lawrence , who has been playing golf for almost three years , has a handicap of 20 . |
| 3 | Steve 's been playing golf for 18 months now . |
| 4 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 5 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 6 | And yet , as er as Linda said women have been playing football for the last seventy , and before that , I mean op , throughout the century women have been playing football ! |
| 7 | He had been playing centre-half for Clapton , alongside Denis Hill-Wood , son of the then Arsenal chairman , when he got a telegram from Clapton 's secretary Harry Kordell . |
| 8 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |