Example sentences of "it had been for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 2 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 3 | At least until 1917 , and to some extent even until 1945 , Europe was the decisive arena of world power , as it had been for centuries . |
| 4 | In 1817 England was still , as it had been for centuries , an agricultural nation , only 20 per cent of the population living in towns . |
| 5 | In the eighteenth century the possession of land was still , as it had been for centuries , the only firm basis of influence and power . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 7 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 8 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 9 | This year , the abundance of berries was the best it had been for years . |
| 10 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 11 | Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism . |