Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] be around [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 2 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 3 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 4 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 5 | They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion . |
| 6 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |