Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [prep] existence " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 2 | It is almost ten years since they have been in existence . |
| 3 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 4 | For Opposition Members to paint a negative picture of TECs failing to do what they have been set up to do is not good enough , because , after all , they have been in existence for only two years . |
| 5 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 6 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 7 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 8 | Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing . |
| 9 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 10 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 11 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |