Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] many [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 2 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 3 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 4 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 5 | While the words may have played little part in Nationalist propaganda , and the ideas they connoted have been uncongenial to many Catholics and erstwhile liberal monarchists within the Nationalist camp , nevertheless the prominence of the Falange and the involvement of Italy and Germany sufficed to satisfy most foreign observers , and by no means only those on the left , that the Spanish rebels were indeed ‘ fascists ’ . |
| 6 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |