Example sentences of "been [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 32 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 33 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 34 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 35 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 36 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 37 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 38 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 39 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 40 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 41 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 42 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |
| 43 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 44 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 45 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 46 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 47 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 48 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 49 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 50 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 51 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 52 | have n't been there for many years |
| 53 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 54 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 55 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 56 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 57 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 58 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 59 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 60 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |