Example sentences of "[be] gone a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not going to be gone a fortnight , I hope . |
| 2 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone a week , perhaps longer . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 4 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 5 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 6 | He 's been gone a month or more . ’ |
| 7 | and yet there 's another week left , one of which were gone a week into er the last week of February that er |