Example sentences of "[be] around [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , in Tokyo , she indicated that she may be around for a little while longer than expected . |
| 2 | It will be around for a long time . |
| 3 | She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’ |
| 4 | These treatments kill off the tiny worms in the large intestine but because the eggs may still be around for a while , everyone must be scrupulous about scrubbing their nails and ultra-hygienic when handling food . |
| 5 | But once the kids arrive , then everything changes — now I know I want to be around for a very long time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll be around for a while , ’ Lucy said . |
| 7 | ‘ You may as well accept that he 's going to be around for a while — until he finally accepts that the club 's not for sale . |
| 8 | Shelley said , ‘ She will be around for a while , Lina , especially if you look after her , and treat her like your own abuela . ’ |
| 9 | REGARDLESS of how much longer Norman Lamont survives at No 11 , his Budget will be around for a long time . |
| 10 | Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come . |
| 11 | We 're young , we have n't got girlfriends , we might not be around in a year 's time so , like , milk the cow while she 's full of milk , really . |
| 12 | Coda has published its report and accounts each year since 1987 because , Turner says , its products are generally sold to the financial directors of large corporations and they always want the security of knowing how a firm is doing and if it will still be around in a few years . |
| 13 | He 'll be around in a little while . |
| 14 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 15 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 16 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 17 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 18 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 19 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 20 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 21 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 22 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 23 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 24 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 25 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 26 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 27 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 28 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 29 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 30 | 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 . |