Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 2 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 3 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 4 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 5 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 6 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 7 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |