Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 2 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 3 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 4 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 5 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 6 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |