Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 2 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 3 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 5 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 6 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 7 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |