Example sentences of "been [adv] for [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 2 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 3 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 4 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |
| 5 | On 30 November 1766 , having been away for over three years , the Mozarts returned to Salzburg . |
| 6 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
| 7 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 8 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 9 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 10 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |
| 12 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 13 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 14 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 15 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 16 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 17 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 18 | Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms . |
| 19 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 20 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 21 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 22 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |
| 23 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 24 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 25 | ‘ Had the contract been simply for so many tons of potatoes of a particular quality then , although each party might have had in his mind when he made the contract this particular crop of potatoes , if they had all perished , the defendant would still have been bound to deliver the quantity contracted for . ’ |
| 26 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 27 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 28 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 29 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 30 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |