Example sentences of "been [verb] [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We have been pursuing proposals for some time .
2 I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back .
3 Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum .
4 I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that .
5 It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers .
6 It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since .
7 These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA .
8 Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period .
9 During that time BP has held a small interest in offshore block 8 and has been designated operator for onshore Cabinda Central block , where operations have been suspended for security reasons .
10 In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support .
11 ‘ But on a point of handicapping , why has he been raised 4lb after finishing second in the Mackeson , while Desert Orchid has been dropped 2lb for finishing second to Long Engagement ? ’
12 I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years .
13 Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws .
14 WAQAR YOUNIS 'S county Surrey have been fined £1,000 for repeated ball-tampering over a three-year period .
15 The Gloucester branch had already been fined £3,600 for similar offences , the city 's magistrates were told .
16 It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre .
17 In the meantime , all four major further education teacher training centres in England — Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , Bolton Institute of Higher Education , and Garnett College have been developing proposals for pre-service courses leading to a BEd .
18 Acting Navy Secretary Sean C. O'Keefe , Garrett 's successor , announced at a press conference on Sept. 24 that Williams and Gordon had been granted requests for early retirement , while Davis had been reassigned to another post .
19 ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’
20 A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time .
21 Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage .
22 Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value .
23 ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on .
24 The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy .
25 Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket .
26 Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) .
27 For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news .
28 The force was regarded as a necessary guarantee to deter incursions by the Iraqi army into the zone of northern Iraq where coalition troops had from April until July been providing protection for Iraqi Kurds [ see pp. 38127-28 ; 38211 ; 38308 ] .
29 One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out .
30 Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them .
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