Example sentences of "been there for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 2 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 3 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 4 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 5 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 6 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 7 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 8 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |