Example sentences of "been [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 2 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 3 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 4 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 5 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 6 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 18 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 19 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 20 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 21 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 22 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 23 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 24 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 25 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 26 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |