Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 2 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 3 | Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker are all graduates and have each been painting for over 20 years . |
| 4 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 5 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 6 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 8 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 9 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 10 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 11 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 12 | Although Lapwings still breed in all open habitats in the county , including heathland , numbers have apparently been declining for over 80 years . |
| 13 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 14 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 15 | ‘ OPTIONS ’ has been running for over ten years in America , four years on the UK mainland and over two years in the province . |
| 16 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 17 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 18 | Northern Ireland has been warring for over 20 years . |
| 19 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 20 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 21 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 22 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 23 | In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma . |
| 24 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 25 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 26 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 27 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 28 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 29 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 30 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |