Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 3 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 4 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 5 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 6 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 7 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 8 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 9 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 10 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 11 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 12 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 13 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |