Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 2 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 3 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 4 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 5 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 6 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 7 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 8 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 9 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 10 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
| 11 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 12 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 13 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 15 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 16 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 18 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 19 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 20 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 21 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 22 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 23 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 24 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 25 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 26 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 27 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 28 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 29 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 30 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |