Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 4 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 5 | Problems with maintenance on timber cladding have been the main reason why upvc ( unplasticised polyvinyl chloride ) versions have been gaining popularity in recent years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 9 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 10 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had been losing money for 3 years . |
| 13 | Siobhan has been losing weight for two years . |
| 14 | The Channel Ten broadcasting deal shocked the Australian public as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been televising rugby for 30 years . |
| 15 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 16 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 17 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 18 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 19 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 20 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 21 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 22 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 23 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 24 | Despite the setbacks , Geoff has been playing golf for 16 years . |
| 25 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 26 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 27 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 28 | It has been touring Britain for 30 years now . |
| 29 | Here in an ancient Herefordshire broadleaved wood , members of the local Nature trust have been monitoring dormice for five years . |
| 30 | The brave star , who has been battling cancer for four years , admits that she still suffers from terrible stagefright . |