Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 2 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 3 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 4 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 5 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 6 | AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge . |
| 7 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 8 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 9 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 10 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 11 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 12 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 13 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 14 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 17 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 18 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 19 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 20 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 21 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 22 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 24 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 25 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 27 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 28 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 30 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |