Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 2 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 3 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 4 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 5 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 6 | Er it 's partly using some questions that 've been around for a very long time but there 're some subtle variations and some new ones added in , okay ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |