Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 10 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 11 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 12 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 13 | We have been here under many governments since 1971 and will continue to be here under many more , ’ the Salomon spokesman said . |
| 14 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |