Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] been for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 2 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 3 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 4 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 5 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 6 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 7 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 8 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 9 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 10 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 11 | And I do n't think they have been for this last |
| 12 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 13 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |