been around
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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.
People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.
Music's evolutionary origin is established because it is present across all humans; it has been around for a long time; it involves specialized brain structures... and it is analogous to music making in other species.
If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.