Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 2 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 3 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 4 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 5 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 6 | ‘ This has been quite a punishing time and some of my family have been badly hurt . |
| 7 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 8 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 9 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 10 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 11 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |
| 12 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 13 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 14 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 15 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
| 16 | Good god that 's been there a long time . |