Sentence examples for had been around for a while from inspiring English sources

The 12-tone thing had been around for a while, and the movement was losing steam.

Studies suggesting that psychoanalysis had a low cure rate had been around for a while.

"O.K., what's new at the festival this year?" "Swimming pigs," Kristen guessed, but the Paddling Porkers had been around for a while.

Charlie Chaplin knew better than to let his silent-film skills get rusty just because talkies had been around for a while.

Even though the rumour had been around for a while, there was not a lot to be gained by raking over old family sores in public.

He was 66. FM radio had been around for a while but did not come of age until the 1960s, when, amid the whirlwind of a growing counterculture, the federal government mandated that FM stations carry different programming from that of their sister AM bands.

"Mobile opera" and "city pieces" have been around for a while.

"Aricept has been around for a while.

Only the black ottoman has been around for a while.

These studies have been around for a while.

Eye-Fi cards have been around for a while.