Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] [det] year " in BNC.

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1 You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years
2 I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years .
3 Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
9 Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years .
10 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
11 It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years .
12 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 .
13 have n't been there for many years
14 After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff .
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