Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] around [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
2 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
3 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
4 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
5 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
6 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
7 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |