Example sentences of "[verb] [been] around for [det] " in BNC.

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1 I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years .
2 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
3 THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years .
4 The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 .
5 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
6 Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals .
7 On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered .
8 Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter .
9 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
10 The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms .
11 The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms .
12 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 .
13 The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years .
14 Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time .
15 Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years .
16 Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived .
17 Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years .
18 Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct .
19 These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction .
20 Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal .
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