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 . |