Example sentences of "been [adv prt] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 2 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 3 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 4 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 5 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 7 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 8 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 9 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
| 10 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 15 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 18 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 19 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 20 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 21 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |