Example sentences of "been [adv] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 2 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 3 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 4 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 5 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 6 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 7 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 8 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 9 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 10 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 11 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |