Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 6 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 11 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 12 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 13 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 14 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 15 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 16 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 17 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 18 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 19 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |