Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] for some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth .
2 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
3 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
4 He had been away for some hours .
5 She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North .
6 After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff .
7 Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years .
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