Example sentences of "[noun] had been [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 2 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 3 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 4 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 5 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 6 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |