Example sentences of "had been present for " in BNC.

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1 An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years .
2 Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain .
3 The majority of leg ulcers ( 291 : 62 per cent ) had been present for under two years , 48 per cent ( 141 ) of these for less than six months .
4 Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years .
5 The Brockwells had been present for all the evidence at the Palais de Justice in Paris .
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