Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
2 | Has been for six years . |
3 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
4 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
5 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
6 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
7 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
8 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
9 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
10 | And Carol and Ann are white and all it needs is for one of them to lead the other , censoring friendship , arousing hostility . |
11 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
12 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
13 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |
14 | So he 's been for two years . |