Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years .
2 A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations .
3 It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries .
4 To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days .
5 She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North .
6 Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century .
7 It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round .
8 The roles of chairman and chief executive are segregated and have been so for nine years .
9 Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake .
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