Example sentences of "[verb] been away for [det] " 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 On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter .
3 She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North .
4 He had been away for some hours .
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 ?
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