Example sentences of "[verb] been around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 2 | Brittle bone disease , or osteogenesis imperfecta , has been around for at least 4,000 years . |
| 3 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 4 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 5 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 6 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 7 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 8 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 9 | ‘ Fuck ’ has been around for at least 500 years ( it was listed synonymously with ‘ sard ’ , ‘ swive ’ and ‘ occupy ’ in John Florio 's Worlde of Words in 1598 ) , but the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary protests that its etymology is unknown . |
| 10 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 11 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 12 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 13 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 14 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 17 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 18 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 19 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 20 | Another group , the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen Council , has been around for years without promising amenities like that ; one of Bushwick 's biggest employers , it has stuck to various welfare and housing services . |
| 21 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 22 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 25 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 26 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 27 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 28 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 29 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 30 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |