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Discover LudwigThe phrase "been of use" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been beneficial or helpful in some way. For example: The new system has been of use in streamlining our operations.
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Until a couple of decades ago — maybe more — there was another building on our property, a small cottage where Pete stored his tools and where various things that had once been of use to us were put out of the way until some decision was made about what to do with them.
She told me on email: "I registered the Skype Twitter name because I worked at Skype at the time so thought it might have been of use to us at some point.
"For us, it's already been of use," says Christian Wiesmann, director of protein science at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
The kit may no longer have been of use to the team because of a change of sponsor, for example.
It also emerged that prosecutors had withheld evidence that may have been of use to his defence at the trial.
Since any scrap parts we gathered were not counted in our budget, we had been collecting any and everything that could possibly have been of use.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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