Example sentences of "have been [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 2 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 3 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 4 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 5 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
| 6 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 7 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 8 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 9 | It could not have been otherwise for the attainment of the required goal of the perfect human being was possible by no other means . |
| 10 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 11 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 12 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 13 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 14 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 15 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |
| 16 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 17 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 18 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 19 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |
| 20 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 22 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 23 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 24 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 25 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 26 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 27 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 28 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 29 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 30 | And also that young chap 's been here for the van . |