Example sentences of "been [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 3 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 4 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |