Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] for [det] years " in BNC.

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1 I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years .
2 Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years .
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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
8 Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years .
9 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
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