Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] for [det] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 2 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 3 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 4 | She noted the greasy chenille tablecloth which was threadbare where the table edge cut into it — a sure sign , Nelly knew , that the cloth had been undisturbed for many months . |
| 5 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 6 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 7 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |