Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 3 | Bernie 's been out at ten o'clock at night before with him . |
| 4 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 5 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 6 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 7 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |
| 8 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 9 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 10 | They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion . |
| 11 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 12 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 13 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 14 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 15 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 16 | The Americans have been here since 1950 . |
| 17 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 18 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 19 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 20 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 21 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 22 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 23 | The idea of solitary waves travelling along rivers and canals has been around since 1844. it was considered a novelty until the early 1960s , when scientists discovered that two solitary waves travelling in opposite directions need not destroy one another , but could in fact continue unscathed . |
| 24 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 25 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 26 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 27 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 28 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 29 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 30 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |