Example sentences of "have been [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 2 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 3 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 4 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 5 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 6 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 7 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 8 | They must have been there for years . ’ |