Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 2 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 3 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 4 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 5 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 6 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 7 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 8 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 9 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 10 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 11 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 12 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 13 | Been there for a hundred years have n't they ? |
| 14 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |