Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] year [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 And the past few years have been good years of course
4 Does not that answer prove that the past 13 years have been wasted years in terms of the Government 's commitment to the footwear industry ?
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 The appeal has been five years in the hearing .
7 The inter-church document tackling the issue of sectarianism has been five years in the making .
8 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 .
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