Example sentences of "been around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 2 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 3 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 4 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 5 | Brittle bone disease , or osteogenesis imperfecta , has been around for at least 4,000 years . |
| 6 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 7 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 9 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 10 | Criteria for membership of the association — consultancies must have at least 10 members of staff , have been around for at least three years and earn most of its income from environmental management — have understandably caused controversy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 13 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 14 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 15 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 16 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 17 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 18 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 19 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 20 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 21 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 22 | ‘ Fuck ’ has been around for at least 500 years ( it was listed synonymously with ‘ sard ’ , ‘ swive ’ and ‘ occupy ’ in John Florio 's Worlde of Words in 1598 ) , but the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary protests that its etymology is unknown . |
| 23 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 24 | It has not been in the hobby quite that long , but has , I estimate , been around for well over 30 years , and was probably the first Apisto to be kept in captivity . |
| 25 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 26 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 27 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 29 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 30 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |