Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [been] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 3 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 4 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The horses have been here for a year but up until yesterday the doors have been closed to the fans … yesterday they were opened up and thousands rolled up . |
| 7 | 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 . |