Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
2 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
3 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
4 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
5 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
6 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
7 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
8 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
9 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |