Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
2 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
3 | The party managers continued to bewail the organizational weakness of Coalition Liberalism , but there had been little opportunity for organizational collaboration ; one of the few joint ventures , a magazine called Popular View , was abandoned in 1921 because of the impossibility of producing a lively magazine out of continuous compromise . |
4 | The Roebuck family had probably been staunch Nonconformists for some time . |
5 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
6 | Fairfax has n't been this way for twenty years . |
7 | There has been limited provision for gifted children in the past . |
8 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
9 | They 'll also want to know why you 're doing it , when there 's been constant obstruction for two years . |
10 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
11 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
12 | Glenys and Neil Kinnock have been regular customers for several years and it was Glenys who had the honour of cutting the ribbon . |
13 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
14 | He had been Prime Minister for eight years and 241 days . |
15 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
16 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
17 | However , in urban areas this was less common and there seems to have been more opportunity for young people to stay in the parental home for longer , because of the greater availability of work in the locality ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 25–6 ) . |
18 | The success of the appeal would therefore have been alarming news for any officer who had tampered with the original notes of interview in any other case . |
19 | Norman Brackley 's family have been growing Sweetpeas for 4 generations . |
20 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
21 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
22 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
23 | Injuries and fitness have been topical issues for some time now . |
24 | However , there have not yet been any plans for positive management of these areas ( Blacksell and Gilg 1981 ) . |
25 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
26 | There may have been secret conclaves for this purpose . |
27 | ‘ I 've been practising golf for two weeks in Florida and now I ca n't hit the ball properly . |
28 | It is important , because , as the hon. Member said , there have been earlier opportunities for such legislation — the Government could have chosen to include a measure in their order of business , and a private Member once introduced a Bill , but unfortunately did not have enough time to secure its progress . |
29 | Rising stress claims have also been bad news for big employers like Wells Fargo Bank , the California institution which echoes back to the stage coach era . |
30 | The 1980s have been bad years for lone mothers , as for so many others . |