Example sentences of "it has been for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
2 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
3 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
4 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
5 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
6 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |