Example sentences of "has [adv] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 2 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 3 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 4 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 5 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 6 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 7 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 8 | General Morillon has also been negotiating for the placing of six Muslim towns or enclaves to be put under UN protection . |
| 9 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 10 | And we can assume , I think , that Fedorov has also been working for them . |
| 11 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 12 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 13 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 14 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 15 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 16 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |