Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 3 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 4 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 5 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 6 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 7 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 8 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |