Example sentences of "this [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
2 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
3 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
4 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
5 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
6 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |