Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 32 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 33 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 34 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 35 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |