Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've only been upstairs a short while . " |
| 2 | ‘ I moved here in September so I have only been here a short time and we have had a lot of changes in the past because of the moves Eric has made , ’ she says . |
| 3 | If early on you learn phrases like " I am learning your language " , " I have only been here a short time " , " I did n't understand what you said " , and " Please repeat it more slowly " , you will at least be able to make a sensible response to anything said to you . |
| 4 | What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people . |
| 5 | I 've only been here a little while , looking after Aunt — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 7 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 8 | I mean , we 've been quite aware that Oxford City Council 's quite a good , always been quite a good environmental council , and erm the fact that this is going through is good news . |
| 9 | A section of the company 's annual report discussing future prospectives indicates that facilities management at CGI has traditionally been more an auxilliary activity than a driving one . |
| 10 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |