Example sentences of "have been [adv] [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 2 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 3 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 4 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 5 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 6 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 8 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |