Example sentences of "[been] used for [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent .
2 Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ .
3 They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert .
4 ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world .
5 The case ‘ will determine whether a seventh of British waterways … ( among the navigable rivers ) … will remain open … access to rivers that have been used for thousands of years could become open to challenge ’ .
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