Example sentences of "[vb base] been on [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 But even for him there 's a thrill playing with bands who 've been on top for quarter of a century
2 The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks .
3 They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting .
4 The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’
5 Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government .
6 A quarter of the country 's coal miners have been on strike for three weeks demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev , the dissolution of the Soviet parliament and the transfer of power to the Federation Council , composed of the elected leaders of the 15 republics .
7 Within the balcony we 've got representatives from Tylers at Crawley , representatives of twenty three of our colleagues , who have been on strike for twenty weeks in defence of jobs , in defence of pay and equally important , in defence of safety standards
8 When the Minister visits north Devon will he consider the matter of British equipment and pay a visit to RAF Chivenor , which is waiting for the SAR Westland helicopters that have been on order for two years ?
9 Available gasifiers are well-designed and economically competitive , but most have been on sale for 18 months or less .
10 The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made .
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