Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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31 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
32 | 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 MelquÃades ' magical irons . |
33 | 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 . |