Example sentences of "'s been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 2 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 3 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 5 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 6 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 7 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 9 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
| 11 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 12 | And also that young chap 's been here for the van . |
| 13 | I 'm sure that Rex Bellamy wo n't mind me saying that in tennis terms at least , he 's been around for quite a while . |
| 14 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 17 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |
| 18 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 19 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 20 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 21 | ‘ Och , that 's been up for days , ’ replied Tam scornfully . |
| 22 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 23 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
| 24 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 26 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 27 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 28 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 29 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 30 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |