Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for a long time " in BNC.

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1 There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time .
2 This has been recognized for a long time .
3 Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time !
4 This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person .
5 I 've been saving for a long time with Alma
6 I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ?
7 The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage .
8 I 'm sure that if he had said something he never have betrayed the pain he had been guarding for a long time .
9 ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began .
10 it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time .
11 which again has been used for a long time on animals .
12 Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show .
13 Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time .
14 I think it 's been closed for a long time actually .
15 They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead .
16 As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time .
17 Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time .
18 ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said .
19 It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’
20 Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke .
21 It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem .
22 Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time
23 It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 .
24 Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury .
25 The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes .
26 The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time .
27 It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way .
28 It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can .
29 As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch .
30 These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised .
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