Example sentences of "[verb] been around for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 2 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 3 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 4 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 5 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 6 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 7 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 8 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 9 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 10 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 11 | Much of what Suragai had said suggested that all the races had been around for far longer than recorded history , but that was a possibility which had always been accepted . |
| 12 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 13 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 14 | Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms . |
| 15 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |
| 16 | In the professional market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers , low-cost alternatives for the home user have only recently started to become available . |
| 17 | In the professional computer market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers but low-cost designs for the home user have only recently started to become available . |
| 18 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 19 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 20 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |
| 21 | I 'm sure that Rex Bellamy wo n't mind me saying that in tennis terms at least , he 's been around for quite a while . |
| 22 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |