Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 2 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 3 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 4 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 5 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 6 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |
| 7 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 8 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 9 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 10 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 11 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 13 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |