Example sentences of "[noun] have been [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 2 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 3 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 4 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 5 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 6 | Fiscal stability and governmental co-operation have been two features of the tax regime in the past which have encouraged investment in the UK . ’ |
| 7 | Lack of public awareness has been one reason for the spread of the killer disease . |
| 8 | ‘ Autumn is my season , twilight is my hour and all my life has been one chain of related twilights ’ , he has written . |
| 9 | ‘ The river had been ten feet up the previous week and I thing the chub had been pushed into the swim , ’ said Mick , 33 . |
| 10 | Excessive schedule length has been one reason for the use of the faceted approach in updating major schemes . |
| 11 | Lewis 's grandfather had been I parson in a Suffolk village , with nothing but his stipend to live on , the father of seven children . |
| 12 | Simon Cormack had been fifteen days in his underground cell , and thirteen since he had answered the question about Aunt Emily and known that his father was trying to get him out . |
| 13 | The martyr 's grave had been one type of such sites . |
| 14 | After half a year of their affair , she 'd begun to wonder , wallowing in his affection , how a man whose history had been one infidelity after another had mended his ways ; which thought led to the possibility that perhaps he had n't . |
| 15 | Most notable in the first category have been six veterans of the Romanian Communist Party who at the beginning of the year addressed an open letter of defiance to President Ceausescu , telling him that ‘ the very idea of socialism for which we have fought is discredited by your policies ’ . |
| 16 | The appeal has been five years in the hearing . |
| 17 | The inter-church document tackling the issue of sectarianism has been five years in the making . |
| 18 | To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis . |