Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adv] 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 | Kathmandu is over four thousand feet high … that 's why race favourite Hugh Jones … the first Brit to win the London Marathon has been out here for a week training … |
| 5 | And er the trainer on medical practices has been out there for a long long time doing this so there 's a lot a wealth of experience there . |
| 6 | Street , and the bottom lamp has been out now for six weeks . |
| 7 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 8 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 9 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 10 | If Tim Sherwood 's long range blast in the 73rd minute had gone in instead of smacking against the bar , it would have been all up for United . |
| 11 | " They may have been all right for very old children . " |
| 12 | When British forces assembled in the Gulf in 1990 , elements of the Armilla Patrol had been out there for most of the previous decade . |
| 13 | When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | I know I also feel happy because I 've been not here for most of the day . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 20 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | THEY 'VE been together now for 25 years … and it do n't seem a day too much . |
| 23 | We 've been together now for 40 years and … |
| 24 | I said I 've been out here for about twenty minutes I better go back in . |
| 25 | and it seemed like ten minutes , yeah , but like Jim came out and said do you realize you 've been out here for hours man |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been out there for a year or so . ’ |
| 27 | Of course pyons have been around now for so long that you do n't need high energy machines to produce pyons . |
| 28 | These three are likely to feature in tomorrow 's opening match against a Stellenbosch Farmers XI , though any idea of a nice easy game should be dismissed as Yorkshire , who have been out here for a week , struggled to beat them a few days ago . |
| 29 | But we have been together now for 12 matches on tour , as well as facing New Zealand and world champions Australia . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |