Example sentences of "[verb] [been] gone a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 2 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 3 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 4 | He 's been gone a month or more . ’ |
| 5 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 6 | He 's been gone a long time |