Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] since [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of solitary waves travelling along rivers and canals has been around since 1844. it was considered a novelty until the early 1960s , when scientists discovered that two solitary waves travelling in opposite directions need not destroy one another , but could in fact continue unscathed . |
| 2 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 3 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 4 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 5 | They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion . |
| 6 | Both are US in origin , the Basler Turbo-67 having been around since 1988 and in ‘ production ’ at Oshkosh , Wisconsin , since 1990 . |
| 7 | Having been up since six and groomed Bones until the sweat ran ( his , not Bones 's ) he felt as if the day were three-quarters through . |
| 8 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 9 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 10 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 11 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 12 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read . |
| 14 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
| 15 | Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ . |
| 16 | She 's been up since six and he is up |
| 17 | ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ ) |