Example sentences of "have been [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 3 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 4 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 5 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 6 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 7 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 8 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 11 | AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge . |
| 12 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 13 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 14 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 15 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 16 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 17 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 18 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 19 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 20 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 21 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 22 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 23 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 24 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 25 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 26 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 27 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 28 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 29 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 30 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |