Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] for [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
2 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
3 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
4 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
5 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
6 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
7 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
8 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
9 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
10 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
11 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
12 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |