Example sentences of "[verb] been around for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 2 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 3 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 4 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 5 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 6 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 7 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 8 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 9 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 10 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 11 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 12 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 13 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 14 | Er it 's partly using some questions that 've been around for a very long time but there 're some subtle variations and some new ones added in , okay ? |
| 15 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 16 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 17 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 18 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 19 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 20 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 21 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 24 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 25 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 26 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 27 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |