Example sentences of "it [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 2 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 3 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 4 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 5 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 6 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 7 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 8 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 9 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 10 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 11 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 12 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 13 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 14 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 15 | It had been there for about a fortnight , and was in the right age range . |
| 16 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 17 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 18 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 19 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 21 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 22 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 23 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 24 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 25 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 26 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |
| 27 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |
| 30 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |