Example sentences of "around for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 2 | Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms . |
| 3 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 4 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 5 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 6 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 7 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 8 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 9 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |
| 10 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 11 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 12 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 'll find them around for quite some time ’ . |
| 14 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 15 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 16 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 17 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |