Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 2 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 3 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 4 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 5 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 6 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 7 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 8 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 9 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |