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The phrase "it has been around" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to indicate that something has been around for an extended period of time. For example, "Apple Inc. has been around for over 40 years."
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It has been around since.
Surely it has been around longer than that?
But it has been around longer than any of them, and, annoyingly, it won't go away.
But nothing lasts forever, even something that seems as if it has been around forever.
The irony is that it has been around, people refer to it and relate to it.
It has been around, in fact, almost as long as the technology that allows computers to perform some pilot functions.
It has been around as a problem for some time, but it has been getting worse and worse.
I don't know whether it has been around long enough".
"When you step back, Shadow IT has been around for years.
It has been around since the 1970s.
It has been around for nearly 23 years.
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