Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 2 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 3 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 4 | I was mean-minded enough to wish it had been for longer . |
| 5 | Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq . |
| 6 | Two used coffee cups and an ashtray full of cigarette ends suggested that the two men who awaited their arrival had been in long and deep discussion . |
| 7 | ‘ Your kind are known to us , Doctor , and have been for longer than you can imagine . ’ |