Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 2 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 3 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 8 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 9 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |
| 10 | Several dogs have been in for boosters and there 's a bitch to be spayed tomorrow . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |