Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 6 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 7 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 8 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 9 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 10 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 11 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 12 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 13 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 14 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 15 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 16 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 17 | She has been there for two years . |
| 18 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 21 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 22 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 23 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 24 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 25 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 26 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 27 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 28 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 29 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 30 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |