Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 2 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 3 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 4 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 5 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 6 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 7 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 8 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 9 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 10 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 11 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 12 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 13 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
| 14 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 15 | Khatami 's resignation had been rumoured for some months , as conservative newspapers had accused him of " leniency " towards the " corrupt , Westernized " Iranian intellectuals and artists , especially those in exile . |
| 16 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 17 | This problem in combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle had been suspected for some time , but was finally confirmed by detailed calculations in 1972 . |
| 18 | That system had been intended for some time . |
| 19 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 20 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 21 | It was rumoured that the ‘ train' actually came into Hallington Station and blew off steam ( even though the track had been lifted for some years ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The house had been neglected for some time , ’ explains Pauline . |
| 23 | There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere . |