Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 2 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 3 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 4 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 5 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |