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Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 've been seeing her for three years . ’
2	I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same .
3	The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’
4	After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’
5	They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines .
6	And I 'd been paying it for two years then
7	I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising .
8	I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died .
9	He 's been doin' it for forty years .
10	I 'd been doing it for five years .
11	Tom 's been doing it for 18 years .
12	Have you been doing it for many years ?
13	And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about
14	He 's been doing it for twenty years
15	She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three .
16	He 's been doing it for three years now .
17	They 've been making them for 30 years .
18	But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement .