Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 4 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 5 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 8 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 9 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 10 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 11 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 12 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 13 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 14 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 17 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 18 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 19 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 20 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 21 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 22 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 23 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 24 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 25 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 26 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 27 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 28 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 29 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 30 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |