Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 2 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 6 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 7 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 8 | Only two of the masters had been there before the war . |
| 9 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 10 | Moreover , there is a coincidence between centres of dispersal and enclaves of diversity among Amazonian languages and the plant and animal ‘ refugia ’ , but humans have been there for perhaps only 6000 years . |
| 11 | When the rest got back to the pageant carts , local Guildsmen had been there before them . |
| 12 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 13 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |