Example sentences of "[noun] has be around for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 2 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 5 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 6 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 11 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 12 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 13 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 14 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 15 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 16 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 17 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 18 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 19 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |