Example sentences of "[noun] has [been] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year .
2 The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher .
3 The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food .
4 The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period .
5 I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that .
6 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 .
7 Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time .
8 As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake .
9 Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London .
10 ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin .
11 The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming .
12 Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time .
13 The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles .
14 The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time .
15 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
16 ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne .
17 The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ .
18 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 .
19 ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’
20 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 .
21 The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s .
22 The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back .
23 Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team .
24 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
25 ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’
26 ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months .
27 Modern man has been around for 4 hours .
28 The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years .
29 Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well !
30 And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary .
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