Example sentences of "have be [adv] for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 2 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 3 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 4 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 5 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 6 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 7 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 8 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 9 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 10 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 11 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 12 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 13 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |