Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 2 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 3 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 4 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 5 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 6 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |