Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [prep] [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 The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court .
3 featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator
4 But he had only been away for three days .
5 This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time .
6 Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee .
7 It broke Perdita 's heart that Ricky , who 'd only been out of top-class polo for three years , was totally ignored .
8 The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West .
9 The best-informed guess from those collecting ‘ yellow card ’ adverse reaction reports has long been that at most only 10 per cent of serious reactions , including death , and considerably less than 1 per cent of mild reactions come to the CSM 's notice .
10 All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched .
11 It 's not been away at all .
12 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 ?
13 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 .
14 Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 .
15 But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock .
16 Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores .
17 After three weeks at his new contract , Cole has not been home before 8.30 in the evening once , so the idea that all contract catering chefs work nine-to-five is a fallacy .
18 She has not been out of this room for six months .
19 She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all .
20 Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming .
21 ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door .
22 We have still not been given any kind of direct word , we 've not been back in direct communication with them .
23 It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own .
24 When he thought back to those years in the Army , and the year immediately afterwards , it seemed to Jackson that he and Ross had scarcely been out of one another 's company .
25 It 's always been around in comic culture , but as cynical publishers try to cash in on the success of Howard Chaykin 's gross Black Kiss , there 's so much of it that the powers that be have noticed .
26 ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’
27 He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ .
28 There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country .
29 By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her .
30 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 .
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