Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 2 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 3 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 4 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 5 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 6 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 7 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 8 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 9 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 10 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |