Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] around for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 2 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 3 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 4 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 5 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 6 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 7 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 8 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 10 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 11 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 12 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 13 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 14 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 15 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |