Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 3 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 4 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 5 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 6 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 7 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 8 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |