Example sentences of "been [adv] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 2 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 3 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 4 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 5 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 6 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 7 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 8 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 11 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 12 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 13 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 14 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 15 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 16 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 17 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 18 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 19 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 20 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 21 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 23 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 24 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 25 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 26 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 27 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 28 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 29 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 30 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |