Example sentences of "have been away for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 3 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 4 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 5 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 6 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 7 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 8 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 9 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |