Example sentences of "been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 2 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 3 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 4 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 5 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 6 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 7 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 8 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 9 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 10 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 11 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 12 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 13 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 14 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 15 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 16 | Well it 's been dry for another day . |
| 17 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 18 | I 'm ten years older now , and in retrospect I see that if Francesca had lived we would n't have been right for each other . ’ |
| 19 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 20 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 21 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 22 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 23 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 24 | I 've always been grateful for that , that they did you know create th th this love of poetry . |
| 25 | Many of the debts sued for , all undefended , had been outstanding for three , four , five and six years , or even for a longer period . |
| 26 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 27 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 28 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 29 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 30 | It has been possible for many of us , for example , to respond to dance from quite other cultures , and to sculpture , carving and painting not only from other cultures but from other , often very remote , times . |