Example sentences of "has [adv] been [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 4 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 6 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |