Example sentences of "have been [adj] for most [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This facility has been available for most of the season running on certain days of the week using a vintage bus supplied by the Wilts and Dorset Bus Company . |
2 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
3 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
4 | The Burford to Bibury road has been awash for most of the afternoon . |
5 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
6 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
7 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |
8 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
9 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |
10 | But almost all the men and women in your Home have been active for most of their lives . |