Example sentences of "[verb] been a [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | And besides , it has been a while since I have wandered four-footed with my children . ’ |
| 2 | André Leon Talley of American Vogue has been a friend since he headed the Womenswear Daily bureau in Paris in the Seventies . |
| 3 | The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies , and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date . |
| 4 | Ipswich , 7 miles south , has been a settlement since the Stone Age , with interesting historical buildings and good modern amenities including a large shopping centre and leisure complex . |
| 5 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |
| 6 | It could be argued , on a theoretical level , that that should have been a concern since the use of SSAPs by businesses means that the compilers of the national income accounts are presented with the same problem — but that is left to the statisticians to resolve . |
| 7 | ‘ I was wearing a flak jacket with bulging pockets and over my shoulder was carrying a bag with my long lens in it — it could have been a bazooka since no-one searched it . |
| 8 | He had been a detective since he was twenty-five and , although unorthodox in his methods , had waged a successful war against the criminals he came up against . |
| 9 | He claimed that his life had been a misery since he sold the recording of Di talking to her friend James Gilbey . |
| 10 | Coghill , who had been a friend since they read English together as undergraduates in 1923 , was now the English tutor at Exeter College . |
| 11 | It had been a while since she 'd fired a pistol and the initial retort took even her by surprise . |
| 12 | It had been a year since the old Port Road to Stranraer line had closed and the London to Stranraer trains were diverted via Ayr and Girvan . |
| 13 | Mr Savimbi 's whereabouts have been a mystery since the battle for Huambo , Unita 's headquarters , began on 9 January . |
| 14 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 15 | And I 'm intending to , to hold a few more assemblies as well to sort of get interest going again because it 's been a while since we did an assembly on it , so if we do another one , that usually gets it going again does n't it ? |
| 16 | ’ Aye , man , but it 's been a while since I tasted whisky like this . ’ |
| 17 | Old ‘ n ’ new mix just right Del Amitri : Middlesbrough Town Hall IT 'S been a while since Del Amitri toured and with current single Always The Last To Know nudging it 's way up the charts , I was pleased to see that the band have n't lost either their raw edge or their well developed sense of humour . |
| 18 | There 's been a development since you were here earlier . |
| 19 | She 's been a Royalist since childhood and tomorrow she hopes to meet the Queen at the official opening of the new Oncology Unit at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford . |