present perfect continuous + adverb

If you are looking for present perfect continuous adverbs, then you are probably looking for adverbs in the middle position = inside the longer present perfect progressive verb phrase between the auxiliary verbs HAVE & BEEN.  Maybe you’d like to know which are the most common present participles at the end.  Firstly, let’s look for:

have | has | ‘ve | ‘s + ADVERB + BEEN + VERB ing

in the iWeb corpus with the query:

have|has _r been _vvg

1 HAS ALSO BEEN WORKING 948
2 HAVE ALSO BEEN WORKING 754

4 HAVE ALSO BEEN USING 512
5 HAVE ALSO BEEN LOOKING 351
6 HAVE ALREADY BEEN USING 319
7 HAVE ALREADY BEEN WORKING 318

I‘ve already been working on my accent.

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8 HAVE REALLY BEEN ENJOYING 298
9 HAS ALREADY BEEN WORKING 241
10 HAS ALSO BEEN MAKING 214
11 HAVE ALSO BEEN TRYING 212
12 HAVE JUST BEEN READING 212
13 HAVE ALSO BEEN TAKING 201
14 HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOOKING 200
15 HAVE NOW BEEN USING 187
16 HAS NOW BEEN RUNNING 184
17 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN WORKING 177
18 HAVE ALSO BEEN GETTING 177
19 HAVE JUST BEEN LOOKING 176
20 HAVE JUST BEEN USING 168

21 HAVE ALL BEEN WORKING 166

22 HAVE ALSO BEEN MAKING 152
23 HAS ALSO BEEN USING 148
24 HAS SINCE BEEN WORKING 146
25 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN LOOKING 139
26 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN USING 137
27 HAS JUST BEEN SITTING 130
28 HAVE ALSO BEEN THINKING 128
29 HAS RECENTLY BEEN WORKING 126
30 HAS ALSO BEEN TAKING 125
31 HAS ALSO BEEN GETTING 120
32 HAS ALSO BEEN TRYING 118
33 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN TRYING 118
34 HAVE NOW BEEN WORKING 117
35 HAVE ALSO BEEN PLAYING 117
36 HAS RECENTLY BEEN MAKING 107

HAVE ALSO BEEN EXPERIENCING

  Derry Now

However, it has now emerged that some residents in Derry have also been experiencing issues with student parties.

38 HAVE LONG BEEN WAITING 100
39 HAVE ALSO BEEN READING 99
40 HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN USING 99

HAS ALWAYS BEEN CHALLENGING

  Forbes

The business world has always been challenging and competitive.

B1 vocabulary:

experiencing, recently

've _rr been _vvg

1 ‘VE ALL BEEN WAITING 1181

2 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WORKING 405
3 ‘VE ALSO BEEN USING 297
4 ‘VE JUST BEEN READING 213
5 ‘VE JUST BEEN TRYING 213
6 ‘VE JUST BEEN USING 206
7 ‘VE ALSO BEEN LOOKING 203
8 ‘VE ALSO BEEN THINKING 193
9 ‘VE REALLY BEEN ENJOYING 188
10 ‘VE JUST BEEN LOOKING 186
11 ‘VE ALSO BEEN TRYING 174
12 ‘VE JUST BEEN WORKING 140
13 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN USING 134
14 ‘VE JUST BEEN PLAYING 133
15 ‘VE ALL BEEN WORKING 129
16 ‘VE JUST BEEN TALKING 128
17 ‘VE ALSO BEEN PLAYING 124
18 ‘VE ALSO BEEN GETTING 123
19 ‘VE ALSO BEEN READING 112
20 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN WORKING 102
21 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING 101
22 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN USING 98
23 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN WORKING 95
24 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN THINKING 93
25 ‘VE JUST BEEN WATCHING 91
26 ‘VE ALSO BEEN TAKING 90
27 ‘VE JUST BEEN WAITING 90
28 ‘VE JUST BEEN GOING 89
29 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN LOOKING 88
30 ‘VE REALLY BEEN TRYING 88
31 ‘VE JUST BEEN GETTING 80
32 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN LOOKING 74
33 ‘VE ALSO BEEN TALKING 73
34 ‘VE JUST BEEN THINKING 72
35 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN GETTING 71
36 ‘VE ALL BEEN LOOKING 68
37 ‘VE ALL BEEN TALKING 68
38 ‘VE ALSO BEEN MAKING 68
39 ‘VE REALLY BEEN LOOKING 66
40 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN USING 66
41 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN TRYING 64
42 ‘VE JUST BEEN TAKING 63
43 ‘VE REALLY BEEN WORKING 57
44 ‘VE JUST BEEN SITTING 56
45 ‘VE REALLY BEEN WANTING 55
46 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN TRYING 54
47 ‘VE ALSO BEEN EXPERIMENTING 54
48 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN TRYING 54
49 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN READING 54
50 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN LOOKING 53
51 ‘VE ALSO BEEN ENJOYING 52
52 ‘VE ALL BEEN ASKING 51
53 ‘VE MOSTLY BEEN USING 51
54 ‘VE ALSO BEEN SEEING 49
55 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WATCHING 49
56 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN THINKING 49
57 ‘VE JUST BEEN LISTENING 48
58 ‘VE ALL BEEN HEARING 46
59 ‘VE JUST BEEN RUNNING 46
60 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN PLAYING 46

‘VE ALSO BEEN TESTING

  The Verge

I’ve also been testing 4K performance, which you can find below.

62 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN PLAYING 44
63 ‘VE ALL BEEN USING 44
64 ‘VE ALSO BEEN RUNNING 44
65 ‘VE ALL BEEN COUNTING 42
66 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN USING 41
67 ‘VE ALL BEEN PLAYING 40
68 ‘VE JUST BEEN PUTTING 40
69 ‘VE REALLY BEEN THINKING 40
70 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN PLAYING 39
71 ‘VE PROBABLY BEEN HEARING 38
72 ‘VE ALSO BEEN GOING 37
73 ‘VE ALL BEEN WONDERING 36
74 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING 36
75 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WONDERING 36
76 ‘VE JUST BEEN FEELING 36
77 ‘VE JUST BEEN MAKING 36
78 ‘VE ALL BEEN ENJOYING 35
79 ‘VE ALSO BEEN LISTENING 35
80 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN MEANING 34
81 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN WORKING 34
82 ‘VE ALL BEEN WATCHING 33
83 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WRITING 33
84 ‘VE PROBABLY BEEN USING 32
85 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN THINKING 31
86 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN EXPERIMENTING 31
87 ‘VE ALL BEEN LIVING 30

‘VE ALSO BEEN CONSIDERING

89 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WANTING 30
90 ‘VE JUST BEEN WONDERING 30
91 ‘VE MAINLY BEEN WORKING 30

B1 vocabulary:

considering, counting, mainly, mostly, testing, wondering

Here’s an extremely advanced sentence with our grammar that shows adverbs in different positions:

In fact, it also shows something interesting,

 that although our capabilities and technology have been expanding geometrically,

 unfortunately, our ability to model their long-term behavior, 

which has also been increasing, 

has been increasing only arithmetically.

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