Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 2 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 3 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 4 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 5 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 6 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 9 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 10 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 11 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 12 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 13 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 14 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 15 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 16 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 17 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 18 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 19 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 20 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 21 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 22 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 23 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |