Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 2 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 3 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 4 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 5 | The er the troops w have been there for twenty five years nearly . |