Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |
| 2 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 3 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 4 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 5 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 6 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 9 | LIFESPAN can be set to automatically offline modules which have not been accessed for a configurable latency period . |
| 10 | This section describes those facilities available within LIFESPAN to transfer modules to offline storage automatically when they have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 11 | Alternatively , an automatic offline requestor ( STOREMAN ) is available to select modules which have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 12 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 13 | Nicolo shifted unhappily in the little gilt chair that had certainly not been made for a man 's body . |
| 14 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 15 | That means programs have still not been written for a whole range of complex new tasks that GPs will be asked to do . |
| 16 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |
| 17 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |
| 18 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 19 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 20 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 21 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 22 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 23 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 24 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 25 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 26 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 27 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 28 | Agreements there have generally been concluded for an indefinite term and ( linked with this ) no ‘ peace obligation ’ has arisen by the application of the agreement , in contrast to Germany . |
| 29 | The long term view that is required for mineral exploitation means that planning permissions have generally been given for a working with a long life commonly not less than fifteen years , and , on occasion , up to sixty years . |
| 30 | The Redcar crew have already been honoured for a daring rescue earlier this year . |