Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 3 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 4 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 8 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 9 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 11 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 12 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 13 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 14 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 15 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 16 | We decided to test a model that has been round for some time on the professional market , and is popular amongst tradesman working on side — the Makita 6012HDW Cordless Driver Drill . |
| 17 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 18 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 19 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 20 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 21 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 22 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
| 23 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 24 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 25 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 30 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |