Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 2 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 3 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 4 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 5 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 6 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 7 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 8 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 9 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 10 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 11 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 12 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 13 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 14 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 15 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 16 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 17 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 18 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 19 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 20 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 21 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 22 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 23 | Plus the young Catriona who designs and makes all her own clothes ( you 're kidding ! ) and informs us that leather trousers have been around for ‘ two or three years now ’ . |
| 24 | Several dogs have been in for boosters and there 's a bitch to be spayed tomorrow . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 26 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 27 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 28 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 29 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 30 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |