Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 3 | The council 's permission to the joint purchase was required because the woman had not been resident for six months . |
| 4 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 5 | Right , I think it 's always been time-tabled for two hours though |