Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restlessly , she returned to the office , then recalled that the answering machine had not been checked for several hours . |
| 2 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 3 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 4 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 5 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |