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 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
15 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
16 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
17 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
18 | She 's been there for the last month . |
19 | 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 . |