Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] for a few " in BNC.

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1 The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense .
2 How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months .
3 He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning .
4 He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him .
5 Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks
6 But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill .
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