Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
2 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
3 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
4 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
5 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
6 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
7 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
8 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
9 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
10 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
11 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
12 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
13 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
14 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
15 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
16 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
17 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
18 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
19 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
20 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
21 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
22 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
23 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
24 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
25 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
26 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
27 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
28 | Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years . |
29 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
30 | One of the important lessons that doctors and lay people have been relearning in recent years is that physical health and mental well-being belong together . |