Example sentences of "[verb] been for [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 2 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 3 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 4 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 5 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 6 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |