Example sentences of "have be [noun] for some " in BNC.

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1 They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long .
2 They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently .
3 The princes had not been mentioned and she assumed it to have been instructions for some special task commissioned privately by the new constable .
4 Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people .
5 They have worked together and have been friends for some time .
6 There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business .
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