Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun] for [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 2 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 3 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 4 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 5 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 6 | These gothic ruins behind the council offices in Abingdon have been deceiving visitors for over a century . |
| 7 | Another recent item in he BMJ ( vol 284 , p 791 ) , for example , concerned an unhappy lady who had been drinking Dettol for at least 10 years in order to ‘ purify ’ herself . |
| 8 | Nearly 40 per cent of the unemployed had been claiming benefit for at least 52 weeks in mid 1989 , although ‘ turnover ’ among shorter duration claimants was by then fairly rapid . |