Example sentences of "'s [been] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's been here a few times . ’ |
| 3 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 4 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 5 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been over an hour , ’ April repeated for Charlie . |
| 7 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's been rather a development , ’ said Emma . |
| 9 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 10 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 12 | when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites . |
| 13 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
| 14 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
| 15 | It 's been there a fortnight and I keep asking everybody if they want to try it . |
| 16 | It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there . |
| 17 | Good god that 's been there a long time . |
| 18 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's been quite a loss of momentum lately in my area . ’ |
| 20 | " It 's been quite a week . |
| 21 | " It 's been quite a day , " she said . |
| 22 | It 's been quite a while . ’ |
| 23 | And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement . |
| 24 | I should think Sophie will be OK with her — there 's been quite a lot of contact . ’ |
| 25 | It 's been quite a day , has n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ Good heavens , I 've got to get back — It 's been quite a lunch , Rob . |
| 27 | Well it 's been quite a year overall , has n't it ? |
| 28 | And recently there 's been quite a lot of thin . |
| 29 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 30 | There 's been quite a lot of comment in the press erm , on high levels of , of salary of , of remu remuneration for directors and I think it might be helpful er , if I was were t were , were to make some general remarks on the background er , of how we er , approach directors ' remuneration . |