Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.

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1 Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that .
2 That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution .
3 Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important .
4 The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million .
5 The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million .
6 Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years .
7 SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game .
8 The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race .
9 He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked .
10 Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him .
11 Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes .
12 Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration .
13 Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) .
14 Katie Englehart , the illiterate wife of an American farmer , has been healing for fifteen years .
15 Faith also has been flying for twenty years .
16 ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years .
17 Shadow aid Minister Michael Meacher , who is flying to Somalia next week , said : ‘ This famine , which is worse than the Ethiopia one of 1985 , has been brewing for two or three years .
18 Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts .
19 She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation .
20 It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt .
21 Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years .
22 The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years .
23 It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff .
24 Grendon has been operating for 30 years and Judge Stephen Tumim 's report , published today , praises them for their standards of humanity , care and dignity .
25 A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England .
26 Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland .
27 Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’
28 This is unfortunate , for a series that has been gestating for three years .
29 It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 .
30 THE national lottery may be new in the UK but in Spain the big gamble game has been running for 180 years .
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