Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] use for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is , of course , that an old and tried medicine which has been on use for perhaps a hundred/a hundred and fifty/two hundred years is really a very safe medicine and you wo n't come to much harm by buying it and taking it . |
| 2 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 3 | The FileNet workflow system ( supplied by Olivetti ) has been in use for some time within the customer services department of the BT mobile division . |
| 4 | Supt Tony Rozier said the building , which has been in use for more than 20 years , had suffered a string of attacks by vandals and thieves , contributing to its demise . |
| 5 | 4472 ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ has been in use for seven day periods , often utilising fourteen hours per day . |
| 6 | One such system , telex , has been in use for many years . |
| 7 | Acknowledge cards has been in use for some months now just that |
| 8 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 9 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 10 | In this way , specific dates can be given to a sequence of finds as more information becomes available : if , for example , a cemetery which had been in use for several decades is excavated , the finds from each grave are studied as individual groups to be fitted into an overall sequence . |
| 11 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 12 | A spokesman pointed out the jet had been in use for five years and there had been no complaints until recently . |
| 13 | At least four have been in use for so long that we have no idea when they were discovered . |
| 14 | Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation . |
| 15 | In parts of southern Africa individual units have been in use for over 20 years . |
| 16 | I have still got two quilts that she made , which have been in use for as long as I can recall . |
| 17 | One author has got plastic pan scrubbers that have been in use for nearly twenty years and are still going strong to this day |
| 18 | Stemming procedures have been in use for many years , mainly as a relatively cheap way of conflating terms which are morphologically similar in the hope that they are also semantically similar . |