Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 2 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 3 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 4 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 5 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 6 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 7 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 8 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 9 | She 's been there for the last month . |