Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
2 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
3 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
4 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
5 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |