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"has been agitating" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that a person or a group have been actively trying to bring about a change or result. For example, "The citizens of this town have been agitating for better public transportation for years."
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The British took it in 1704 & Spain has been agitating for its return ever since.
Since the 1980s, the fund has been agitating for improved corporate governance.
She has been agitating against the oppression of women, including genital mutilation, since the early 1970s.
The younger generation of Fatah has been agitating for a party conference for years.
In the US, the shale industry has been agitating for new access to EU markets.
Blame the credit crisis that has been agitating the financial markets for the last few months.
David Platt has been agitating for the return of young Max to pallid birth mother Kylie.
Like Stewart, Urry thinks Handelsman's study might catalyze the changes she has been agitating to achieve for years.
The resultant impasse has been agitating the conscience of the liberal left for the best part of half a century.
Turkey's Kurdish minority has 20 representatives in the 540-seat Parliament and has been agitating for more.
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The documents show that industry has been agitated about ministers' "unrealistic" plans to tighten the rules on conflicts of interests.
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