Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 2 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 3 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 4 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 5 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 6 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 7 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 12 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 17 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 18 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |