Example sentences of "been [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
2 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
3 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
4 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
5 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
6 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
7 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
8 | She had been up for five hours . |
9 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
10 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
11 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
12 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
13 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
14 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
15 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
16 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
17 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
18 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
19 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
20 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
21 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |
22 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
23 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
24 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
25 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
26 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
27 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
28 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
29 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |