Example sentences of "[verb] [been] there for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 2 | She has been there for two years . |
| 3 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 4 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 5 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 6 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 7 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 8 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 9 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 10 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 11 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 13 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 14 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 15 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 16 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 19 | We have been there for 20 years . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 21 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |