Example sentences of "[vb past] been running for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 2 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 3 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |
| 4 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 5 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |