Example sentences of "have for some time [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has for some time known that this site would be available , yet from the announcement of the project to the Minister 's stated deadline for consultation is 8 months , including the summer months . |
| 2 | The military wing of Massoud Rajavi 's Mojahadin-e Khalq , the National Liberation Army ( NLA ) , had for some time operated out of the base with the permission of the Iraqi government . |
| 3 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 4 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
| 5 | It added : ‘ This explosion deepens the cracks in a monarchy which a number of Britons have for some time regarded with a mixture of indifference and contempt . ’ |