Example sentences of "been there for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 2 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 3 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 4 | have n't been there for many years |
| 5 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 6 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 7 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 8 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 9 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 10 | She has been there for two years . |
| 11 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 12 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 14 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 15 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 17 | We have been there for 20 years . |
| 18 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 19 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 20 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 21 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 22 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 23 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 24 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 25 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 26 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 29 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 30 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |