Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] now for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 2 | He has been there now for over ten years . |
| 3 | The last matter relates to some possible supposed uncertainty about the plaintiff 's further education at school , as I have already noted it is expected that the plaintiff will remain at school until he is nineteen , he has been there now for three years . |
| 4 | Street , and the bottom lamp has been out now for six weeks . |
| 5 | And I stuck it in there and I , I figured it had been there now for what eighteen months and I think it was you who said oh give it another six months |
| 6 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 7 | We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts . |
| 8 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 9 | THEY 'VE been together now for 25 years … and it do n't seem a day too much . |
| 10 | We 've been together now for 40 years and … |
| 11 | Of course pyons have been around now for so long that you do n't need high energy machines to produce pyons . |
| 12 | But we have been together now for 12 matches on tour , as well as facing New Zealand and world champions Australia . |
| 13 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |
| 14 | She 's been out now for twenty minutes |