Example sentences of "been [adv] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 32 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 33 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 34 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 35 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 36 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 37 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 38 | Been there for a hundred years have n't they ? |
| 39 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 40 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 41 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 42 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 43 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 44 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 45 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 46 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 47 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 48 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |