Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] for some " in BNC.

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1 Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth .
2 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
3 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 .
4 On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered .
5 Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter .
6 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
7 The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms .
8 The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms .
9 We decided to test a model that has been round for some time on the professional market , and is popular amongst tradesman working on side — the Makita 6012HDW Cordless Driver Drill .
10 His section has been over for some time . ’
11 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 .
12 He 'd been there for some time .
13 There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time .
14 She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North .
15 He had been away for some hours .
16 Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time .
17 " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time …
18 After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff .
19 He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards .
20 Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now .
21 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
22 It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
23 Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time .
24 The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach .
25 I 've been here for some time .
26 So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it !
27 Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time .
28 See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ?
29 Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time .
30 Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years .
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