Example sentences of "have been around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 2 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 3 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 4 | Criteria for membership of the association — consultancies must have at least 10 members of staff , have been around for at least three years and earn most of its income from environmental management — have understandably caused controversy . |
| 5 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 6 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 7 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 8 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 9 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 10 | Plus the young Catriona who designs and makes all her own clothes ( you 're kidding ! ) and informs us that leather trousers have been around for ‘ two or three years now ’ . |
| 11 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 12 | Some of the titles currently optioned have been around for years , but the prospects are tantalising . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 15 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 16 | In the professional market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers , low-cost alternatives for the home user have only recently started to become available . |
| 17 | In the professional computer market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers but low-cost designs for the home user have only recently started to become available . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |
| 20 | Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |
| 23 | Doc Martens BOOTS have been around for years . |
| 24 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 25 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |