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 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 7 | She 's been there for — oh , it must be twenty years . |
| 8 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 11 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 12 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 13 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |
| 19 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 20 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 21 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 22 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 23 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 24 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |
| 25 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
| 26 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 27 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 28 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |
| 29 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |