Example sentences of "it [vb -s] been [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 2 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 3 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 4 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 6 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |
| 7 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |