Example sentences of "been [adv] [vb pp] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 2 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 3 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 4 | Because of this , the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets . |
| 5 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 6 | The pharmacology of clozapine has been closely scrutinized for some time because of the drug 's atypical effects . |