Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians . |
| 2 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 3 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 4 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 5 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 6 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 7 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |