Example sentences of "[verb] been around [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
2 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
3 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
4 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
5 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
6 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
7 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
8 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
9 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
10 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
13 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |