Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been around for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 3 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 4 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 5 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 6 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |