Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 2 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 3 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 4 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 5 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 6 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 7 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 8 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 9 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |
| 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 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 12 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 13 | One EC official said yesterday that the problem of fraud involving the Vatican had been understood for several years , and that attempts were being made to stamp it out . |
| 14 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 15 | This placed an unfortunate obstacle in the path of the police who might otherwise , simply on the grounds of suspicion , make a ‘ clean sweep ’ of all known criminals — a policy that had been advocated for some years by Matthew Davenport Hill , the Recorder of Birmingham — as a sure means to guarantee the safety of the streets . |
| 16 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 17 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 18 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 19 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 20 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 21 | In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 25 | The decrease in spot density with age observed in patients with constipation is not therefore an age related factor , but is most probably related to the duration of the symptoms as most had been constipated for many years . |
| 26 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 29 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |