Example sentences of "have [been] there for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 2 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 3 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 11 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 12 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 13 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |