Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 5 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 6 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 7 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 8 | Much of what Suragai had said suggested that all the races had been around for far longer than recorded history , but that was a possibility which had always been accepted . |
| 9 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |