Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 3 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 4 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 5 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 6 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 7 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 8 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 9 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 10 | She has been there for two years . |
| 11 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 12 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 13 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 16 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 17 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 18 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 19 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 20 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 21 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 22 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 23 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 24 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 25 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 26 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 27 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 30 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |