Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for centuries " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy of these villages — in Mirpur , Jhelum or in East Punjab across the Indo-Pakistan border ( see Table 1 & map ) — has been feudal for centuries . |
| 2 | These islands have been Spanish for centuries . |
| 3 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 4 | Scotland has never been a stranger to drug-related violence , though our favourite drug of choice has been legal for centuries . |
| 5 | HIV may have been present for centuries in a relatively harmless form and only recently evolved into a more damaging one . |
| 6 | Too many women have been brain-washed for centuries in to accepting the old saying : 'A son 's a son till he gets him a wife , but a daughter 's a daughter all her life . ’ |
| 7 | In the north of Ethiopia , such practices have been common for centuries . |
| 8 | Although they knew that it was a volcano , it had been dormant for centuries , and they had no records whatever of any eruptions . |