Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 2 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 3 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 4 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 5 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 6 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 7 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 8 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 9 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 10 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 11 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 12 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 13 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 14 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 15 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 16 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 17 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 18 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 19 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 20 | have n't been there for many years |
| 21 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 22 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 23 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 24 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 25 | We have n't been together for three months . |