Example sentences of "[been] in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you aware ’ , she asked , ‘ that the National Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children has now been in existence for ten years ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 4 | MAGISTRATES ' Courts have been in existence for hundreds of years , presided over by lay Justices of the Peace ( magistrates ) , that is people who have no legal qualification . |
| 5 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 6 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 7 | The idea , however , has been in existence for as long as man has worshipped . |
| 8 | Although difficult to date he believes the trackway to have been in existence for at least 2,000 years and may well pre-date Roman times . |
| 9 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 10 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant . |
| 12 | The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions . |
| 13 | Lyn de Alwis , Director of the Sri Lanka National Parks , had a secret weapon , although it is debatable whether you can call a facility that has been in existence for several thousand years ‘ secret ’ . |
| 14 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 15 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 16 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 17 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |
| 18 | The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 . |
| 19 | At a meeting on 1 September , the " Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union " was described as having been in existence for some nine weeks . |
| 20 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |
| 21 | Easthall Residents ' Association ( ERA ) has been in existence for 20 years and has been involved in numerous issues affecting the community . |
| 22 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 23 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 24 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |
| 25 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 26 | The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name . |
| 27 | By then , however , the main outlines have been in existence for a very long time , and it is these earlier arrangements about which we really need to know more and where future research should be concentrated . |
| 28 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that the Common Market has now been in existence for thirty-five years , despite also the fact that its main original raison d'être was to abolish obstacles to trade between Member States , a feature of the whole process has been the skill with which countries have managed to keep up their non-tariff trade barriers . |
| 30 | The recent announcement of a link up between the EC and EFTA to create a European Economic Area [ EEA ] by 1993 is likely to have little immediate impact on the proportion of exports destined for these areas , partly because privileged access to each others markets has already been in existence for a number of years between the two trading blocks . |