Example sentences of "been [adj] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
2 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
3 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
4 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
5 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
6 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
7 | ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’ |
8 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
9 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
10 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
11 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
12 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
13 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
14 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
15 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
16 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
17 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
18 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
19 | I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’ |
20 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
21 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
22 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
23 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
24 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
25 | The time out lasts only until the child has stopped the undesirable behaviour and has been quiet for a short time . |
26 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |
27 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
28 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
29 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
30 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |