Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 2 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 3 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 4 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 6 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 7 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 8 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 9 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 10 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 11 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 12 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 13 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 14 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 15 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 18 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 19 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 20 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 21 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 22 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 23 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 26 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 27 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 28 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 29 | " 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 . |
| 30 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |