Example sentences of "been [verb] for [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 2 | By contrast , alcohol has been enjoyed for thousands of years and in moderate quantities is harmless . |
| 3 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 5 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 7 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 8 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 9 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 10 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 11 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 12 | Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ . |
| 13 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 14 | ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world . |
| 15 | The case ‘ will determine whether a seventh of British waterways … ( among the navigable rivers ) … will remain open … access to rivers that have been used for thousands of years could become open to challenge ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 17 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 19 | In some places the books had not been touched for hundreds of years and could hardly be seen for dust . |
| 20 | It has n't been touched for hundreds of years . |
| 21 | The existence of a fundamental ‘ life energy ’ has been postulated for thousands of years in many different civilizations , and crops up independently from sources which had little contact with each other . |
| 22 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 23 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 24 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |