Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular importance among recent works is Janet Todd 's A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660–1800 ( 1984 ) which brings forward an enormous amount of information about writers , some of whom have been entirely unregarded for more than two centuries . |
| 2 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 3 | And another Quote of the Week ( and how long we have had to wait for the national press to notice what has been so obvious for so long ) : ‘ With Waterstones backed by W H Smith , and Pentos ’ gearing rising , there can be little doubt who has the deeper pockets to fight a protracted battle . |
| 4 | No harm in that : pedestrian documentation is what there is a call for — Pound himself , and his admirers emulating him , have been so sprightly for so long that they have persuaded people they , and he , can not be in earnest . |
| 5 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 6 | I 've been so afraid for so long that you 'd never care for me … |
| 7 | Though the experience of structural change is common to all , the consequences have been sharply different for both countries and firms . |
| 8 | All had been clinically stable for over three weeks . |
| 9 | Also , UK-based artists have been regularly responsible for over 30 per cent of the world 's record business . |
| 10 | The bias erm of British producers towards producing for a British market is likely to persist erm historically it 's been very difficult for all but er select minority to achieve significant sells sales overseas . |
| 11 | At the end of the debate , the House will give its support for the Prime Minister carrying on playing a full part in European evolution — an evolution about which we have been too hesitant for too long . |
| 12 | ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said . |