Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 2 | She has been there for two years . |
| 3 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 4 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 5 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 6 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 7 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 8 | She 's been there for — oh , it must be twenty years . |
| 9 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 10 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 11 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 12 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 13 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 14 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 15 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 16 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 17 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 18 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 19 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 20 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 21 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 22 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 23 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 24 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 26 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 27 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 28 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 29 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 30 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |