Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " 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 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 5 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |