Example sentences of "been [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 9,123 adjudications in 1868 there had been 6,489 in which no dividend had been realized . |
| 2 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 3 | There had been eight of them , four girls and four boys , and only ten years between first and last . |
| 4 | With the FTSE staging a modest recovery to be 6.5 down at 3032.1 having been 16.5 off immediately dealing began , City analysts believe the 100-index will fall to the 3000 level if the weakness on the New York stock market continues . |
| 5 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 6 | There have been 2 by local newspapers and both show our support more or less the same as it was back in 87 with a substantial drop in Liberal Democrat support and a substantial rise in support for Labour . |
| 7 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |
| 8 | ( The market 's post crash high had been 2,737.8 on 11 May 1992 . ) |
| 9 | Norton 's Coin , who had been 200–1 with some bookmakers that morning , started at 100–1 having opened in the course betting at 66–1 . |
| 10 | She had been nineteen like me , and youth , as I knew , even when its possessor is unattractive , has an appeal of its own . |
| 11 | There must have been hundreds of men and women at work there , but they all looked happy enough which cheered her . |
| 12 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 13 | ‘ There could have been hundreds of people … . ’ |
| 14 | Between the 17th century and the present day , there have been hundreds of detailed sightings of terrifying creatures at sea . |
| 15 | There have been hundreds of convoys through Serb territory . |
| 16 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |
| 17 | It could have been 2-0 at half-time . |
| 18 | On the contrary , BMW — which is to celebrate its 75th anniversary soon — greeted the announcement of the S-class with undisguised glee while sitting back to count record orders for its new 3-series and boast about production figures for its V12 — now running at 80 per day when the original target had been 10 to 15 . |
| 19 | The previous game had been 1–1 at Ewok Park and ST had earned a replay at their ground , the director 's granny 's back garden . |
| 20 | In 1960 ( say the official records ) two people committed suicide in Greenland ; that would have been six per 100,000 . |
| 21 | Erm I lost interest in photography f er after a while because the er the photography at the centre , there 's always been ever since I joined , there 's been six of us who had er a l a lasting thing with photography . |
| 22 | Yeah well you you know I 've been in there on a Saturday morning when there 's been six of us there and one bloke serving , you know , I mean |
| 23 | Until 1947 des Forges and Harber give about 17 records , and there have been six since 1964 . |
| 24 | By this time , there had been six Beyond Our Kens , but Horne and his producer thought another comic input was necessary . |
| 25 | There would have been six in a in a bed . |
| 26 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 in three weeks , was found unconscious and bleeding heavily . |
| 27 | The provision of hospital beds was in decline , having been 2.2 per thousand in 1974 it had fallen to 1.6 per thousand by 1985 , due to both hospital cuts and to natural increase . |
| 28 | ‘ A house is not a proper home without children , and I quite thought there might have been three at least by now . ’ |
| 29 | There might have been three of I do n't know how many there were but he was one of the older joiners . |
| 30 | Pittenweem was one of the burghs which favoured Alexander , although if it had favoured Anstruther , it would have been three to two . |