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- phrase colloquial Shortened form of
there have .
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Examples
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ARNOLD: Okay, $25,000 for each homeowner and there've been millions of foreclosures.
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ARNOLD: Okay, $25,000 for each homeowner and there've been millions of foreclosures.
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Well, so far, says Schaffner, there've been no reports of imposters offering flu shots.
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Well, really, there've been quite a lot over the past year, and I am disorganized.
Fairyland yuki_onna 2010
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That's what often happens with the older buildings; there've been horrific stories of that kind of thing in the newspapers over the years.
Ugly Townhouses and Apartment Buildings, begone! « PubliCola 2010
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ARNOLD: Okay, $25,000 for each homeowner and there've been millions of foreclosures.
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But there've also been some great movies in this genre, and one that turned out better than expected is The Art of Getting By, largely due to the performance of its star, Freddie Highmore, who plays George, a solitary teenager who believes that the inevitability of death makes life and doing homework meaningless, which might lead to him having to repeat his senior year at a private New York high school.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The Art of Getting By -- Smells Like Teen Angst Jonathan Kim 2011
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The worst has happened times four...but...there've been zero fatalities.
Sorry for the Meltdown Al Lewis 2011
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You get older and realize, if one show was going to take the band down, it would have happened already, because there've been plenty that would have warranted that reaction from the public.
Playing in the Rockers' Clubhouse John Jurgensen 2011
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And there've been questions about whether these theories — which some would say are Western theories — would apply in southern Africa.
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