Example sentences of "had been [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time .
2 The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time .
3 Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic .
4 The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time .
5 Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched .
6 He told me he had been there for a long time dying .
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