Example sentences of "have been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 2 | ‘ We have been here for five years . |
| 3 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 4 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |
| 5 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 6 | The roles of chairman and chief executive are segregated and have been so for nine years . |
| 7 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 8 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 9 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 10 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 11 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 12 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |
| 13 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 14 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 15 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 16 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 17 | The er the troops w have been there for twenty five years nearly . |
| 18 | We have been there for 20 years . |
| 19 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 20 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |