Example sentences of "been [adv] for some " in BNC.
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1 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
2 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
3 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
4 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
5 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
6 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
7 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
8 | He had been away for some hours . |
9 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
10 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
11 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
12 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
13 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
14 | He 's been out for some time . |
15 | I 've been here for some time . |
16 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
17 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
18 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
19 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
20 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
21 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
22 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
23 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
24 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
25 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
26 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |
27 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
28 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
29 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
30 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |