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

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1 I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years .
2 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
3 THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years .
4 A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations .
5 It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries .
6 The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years .
7 I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints .
8 It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years .
9 These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 .
10 Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years .
11 Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived .
12 You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years
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