Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's been clear for years ( ever since the Hayward exhibitions The Other Story : AfroAsian Artists in Postwar Britain and Art in Latin America met with such dismally insular reponses from most of the critics ) that massive justification is needed for any exhibition that seems ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 32 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
| 33 | He 's been homeless for more than twenty years . |
| 34 | ‘ He 's been free for three days now , and people are frightened . |
| 35 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |
| 36 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 37 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |
| 38 | Yeah , he 's been slack for a while now . |