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I've been here for more than sixty years.

I want to make sure if the expression "have been here for...." imply that he didn't live here originally, and he moved here 60 years ago.

I mean if a person was born and grew up in a place, can he use the expression "I have been here for...."

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    Note that it's fine to say things like I have been here all my life. Idiomatically, if you say you've been in some location / condition for some specified length of time, there would often be an implication that you were somewhere else or in some other condition before that, but not necessarily.
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Nov 25, 2019 at 13:22
  • Your comment can very well make an answer. Thanks.
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    Commented Nov 25, 2019 at 13:48

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It does not imply that. He might also use the phrase if he was born there.

Interestingly, adding a colloquial "now" on the end subtly shifts the meaning to imply what you want: "I've been here for over sixty years, now..." is indeed something that someone "originally" from the area would tend to not say.

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