Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 2 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 3 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 4 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 5 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 6 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 7 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 8 | This latest development in a saga which has been running for many months represents a change of heart by the Saints ' board . |
| 9 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 10 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 11 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
| 12 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 13 | Voluntary Project administrator Roy Montgomery is convinced the scheme , which has been running for three months , is a major success — and a lifeline for local young people . |
| 14 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm really excited about it and will be travelling for nine months , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 17 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 18 | He and his wife were going for two months . |
| 19 | Coun Stenson did not attend a governor 's meeting for 12 months . |
| 20 | Japan , too , is highlighted as part of the huge Japan Festival which is running for three months in Northern Ireland and throughout Britain — but , yes , it was another coincidence that Scottish Opera chose to offer us Madama Butterfly ! |
| 21 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 22 | TWENTY-ONE-YEAR OLD Hazel Rodgers is preparing for three months ‘ voluntary work in America after being chosen to represent the Royal Bank in this year 's Winant and Clayton Volunteer Scheme . |
| 23 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 24 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 26 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 27 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 28 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |