Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 7 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 8 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 9 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 10 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She has been there for two years . |
| 13 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 17 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 22 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 23 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
| 24 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 27 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 28 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |