Example sentences of "it have be for a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time .
2 The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time .
3 ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time .
4 It has been for a , a while now
5 During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while .
6 Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time .
7 The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent .
8 Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant .
9 There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University .
10 It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 .
11 Last time it had been for a length of dress material .
12 then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years .
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