Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun pl] [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 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 7 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 8 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 11 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |