Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 2 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 3 | Another group , the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen Council , has been around for years without promising amenities like that ; one of Bushwick 's biggest employers , it has stuck to various welfare and housing services . |
| 4 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 5 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 6 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 7 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 8 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
| 9 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 10 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 11 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 13 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 14 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 15 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 16 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 17 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 18 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 19 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 20 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 21 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 22 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 23 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 24 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 25 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 26 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 27 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 28 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 29 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |