Example sentences of "been [adv prt] for a long time " in BNC.

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1 No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time .
2 Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched .
3 I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’
4 Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time .
5 As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time .
6 The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time .
7 Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic .
8 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
9 The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems .
10 Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers .
11 Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year .
12 Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ?
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