Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 2 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 3 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 4 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 5 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 6 | Plus the young Catriona who designs and makes all her own clothes ( you 're kidding ! ) and informs us that leather trousers have been around for ‘ two or three years now ’ . |
| 7 | Of course pyons have been around now for so long that you do n't need high energy machines to produce pyons . |
| 8 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |
| 9 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 10 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 11 | Junk bonds have been around , in one form or another , ever since the 1800s . |
| 12 | I suppose , Professor Smith , that medicine 's been around just about as long as people have been around ? |
| 13 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 14 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 15 | Doc Martens BOOTS have been around for years . |
| 16 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 17 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 18 | In the professional market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers , low-cost alternatives for the home user have only recently started to become available . |
| 19 | In the professional computer market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers but low-cost designs for the home user have only recently started to become available . |
| 20 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 21 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |