Example sentences of "[verb] been away for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 2 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 3 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 4 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 5 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 6 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 7 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |