Example sentences of "'s been [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
| 2 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |
| 3 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 4 | ‘ Och , that 's been up for days , ’ replied Tam scornfully . |
| 5 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 6 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 7 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 8 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 9 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 10 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 11 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |