Example sentences of "been around for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 5 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 6 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 7 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 8 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 12 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 13 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 14 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
| 15 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 16 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 17 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 18 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 19 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 20 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 21 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 22 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 23 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 28 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |
| 29 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 30 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |