Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 2 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 3 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 4 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 5 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 6 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 7 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 8 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 9 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 10 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 11 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 12 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 13 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 14 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 15 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 16 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 17 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 18 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 19 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 20 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 21 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 22 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 23 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 24 | She has been there for two years . |
| 25 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 26 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 27 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 28 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 29 | AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge . |
| 30 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |