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Click to enlarge 2008: The summer has been long, and Linda and I have been quarrelling for longer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2013

“All the countries of Europe have been quarrelling over these cucumbers and now they’re trying to drag us into it,” Putin told reporters in Sochi today.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 3, 2011

“I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,” said Diana, “during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you—he will make it up.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

According to the Liverpool Standard, the Irish have been quarrelling amongst themselves at Liverpool; but from our contemporary's version of the affair, we are inclined to doubt this intrinsically very improbable circumstance.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

"You have been quarrelling with father again," she said, with an abruptness that was altogether foreign to her habitual attitude toward him.

From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis