Example sentences of "been [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 32 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 33 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 34 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 35 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 36 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 37 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 38 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 39 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 40 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 41 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 42 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 43 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 44 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 45 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 46 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 47 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 48 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 49 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 50 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 51 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 52 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 53 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 54 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 55 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 56 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 57 | Been there for a hundred years have n't they ? |
| 58 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 59 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 60 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |