Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 2 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 3 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 4 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 5 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |