Example sentences of "have been [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ?
2 Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with .
3 Posh have been up for grabs since last year and chairman John Devaney , a property magnate and ex-Oxford director , will sell if the price is right .
4 Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time .
5 The posters have been up for weeks … when the powerboat circus comes to town … the streets and squares close down … everyone makes for the river … every bridge … and every balcony becomes a grandstand … a ring side seat for the big race …
6 Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far .
7 The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable .
8 Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers .
9 Criteria for membership of the association — consultancies must have at least 10 members of staff , have been around for at least three years and earn most of its income from environmental management — have understandably caused controversy .
10 As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time .
11 Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years .
12 Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years .
13 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use .
14 Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith
15 Plus the young Catriona who designs and makes all her own clothes ( you 're kidding ! ) and informs us that leather trousers have been around for ‘ two or three years now ’ .
16 They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 .
17 Some of the titles currently optioned have been around for years , but the prospects are tantalising .
18 Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct .
19 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
20 In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age .
21 In the professional market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers , low-cost alternatives for the home user have only recently started to become available .
22 In the professional computer market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers but low-cost designs for the home user have only recently started to become available .
23 These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction .
24 Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines .
25 Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms .
26 Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived .
27 I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that .
28 Doc Martens BOOTS have been around for years .
29 The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts .
30 ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said .
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