Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 2 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 3 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 4 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 5 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 6 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 7 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 8 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 10 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 11 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 12 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 13 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |