Example sentences of "been around for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 2 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 3 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 4 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 5 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 6 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 7 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 8 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 9 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 10 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 11 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 12 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 13 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 14 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 15 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 16 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 17 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 19 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 20 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |