Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 10 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 16 | Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 20 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 21 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |