Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv prt] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 2 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 3 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 4 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 5 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 6 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 7 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 8 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 9 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 10 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 11 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 12 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 13 | Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms . |
| 14 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 15 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |