Example sentences of "[adv] have been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 2 | If the navvies had n't been there to help she 'd not have been found for days . ’ |
| 3 | Press reports cited evidence of his involvement with the USA , including his use of a US military helicopter to travel from Beirut to Cyprus in 1986 and his involvement in the release of three US hostages , the Rev. Benjamin Weir , freed on Sept. 14 , 1985 , and Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen , released on July 26 and Nov. 2 , 1986 , respectively , all of whom turned out to have been traded for arms . |
| 4 | The top floor directly overhead had been abandoned for years . |
| 5 | Since workwear , for want of any better term , is n't really new in this country at all ( American denim brands like Lee and Levi 's are hardly passing fads ) and since the more recent brand arrivals here have been worn for years in the US and Australia , hype accusations are a little misguided . |