Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The toxicity of some drugs has brought the status of the pharmaceutical industry to its lowest ebb yet , and has been partly responsible for a virtual stampede away from chemists towards health shops . |
| 2 | Yet she knew it was there , in the background , darkening all her thoughts , rendering her sleepless in the nights following their departure and also confirming something of which she had been dimly aware for a long time . |
| 3 | At 2200–2400/£1 exchange rates have been fairly steady for a few years . |
| 4 | We have a son who still lives at home who in fact has been quite ill for a long time and erm she you know the amount the work she has done therefore has been seriously limited . |
| 5 | Surere had been unusually inflexible for an intelligent man . |
| 6 | The organization 's market share had been relatively stable for a long time and even growing in concert with the growth in world economies . |
| 7 | It may have been relatively easy for a large part of the workforce to switch from manufacturing to service industries in the 1980s , but to do the opposite is more difficult . |
| 8 | It just felt like somewhere that had been absolutely clean for a very , very long time . |
| 9 | You 've been very quiet for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | The rate of unemployment in Glasgow has been very high for a long time , and I accept that that is unfortunate . |