Example sentences of "have been [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 2 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 3 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 4 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 5 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |