Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 5 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 6 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 7 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 8 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 9 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 12 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 13 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 16 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 22 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 23 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 24 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 25 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 26 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | have n't been there for many years |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |