Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [been] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 2 | She has been there for two years . |
| 3 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 4 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 5 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 6 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 7 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 8 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 9 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 12 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 13 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 14 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 15 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 16 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |