Example sentences of "they [vb base] been around " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been around along time , however , and there are those , Gavin Friday included , who would put their meandering career down to a Dublin penchant for beer , bars and general untogetherness . |
| 2 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 3 | Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years . |
| 4 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 5 | They have been around since Egyptian times , which makes them one of our oldest decorating materials . |
| 6 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 7 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 8 | They have been around , practically unchanged , for at least 200 million years . |
| 9 | In fact , they have been around forever . |
| 10 | In fact , they have been around forever . |
| 11 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |