Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] been [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 2 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 3 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 4 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 5 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 6 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 7 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 8 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 9 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 10 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 11 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 12 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 13 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 14 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 15 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |