Example sentences of "been [adv] for [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 2 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 3 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 4 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 5 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 6 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 7 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 8 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 9 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |
| 10 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 11 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 12 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 13 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 14 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 15 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 16 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 17 | No it was been here for six weeks and I was just expecting to leave |
| 18 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 19 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 20 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 21 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |
| 22 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 23 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 24 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 25 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 26 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 27 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 28 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |