Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.

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1	For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools .
2	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 .
3	However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously .
4	The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back .
5	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 .
6	In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference .
7	Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years .
8	Much of what Suragai had said suggested that all the races had been around for far longer than recorded history , but that was a possibility which had always been accepted .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts .
12	The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued .

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