Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] be [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 2 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 3 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |
| 4 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 5 | But you 've got to get some years in to get a really good pension , but I 've got thirteen and the maximum you can get is forty years but you get , then get two thirds of the salary you would have got , |
| 6 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 7 | Whatever justification there may have been 600 years ago for riot and revolt , there was never such justification today . |
| 8 | Although tried as adults , the defendants were due to be sentenced as juveniles , which meant that the maximum prison term which they could receive was 10 years . |
| 9 | Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago . |
| 10 | Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago . |
| 11 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |
| 12 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 13 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 14 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 15 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 16 | But it seems to be a lot less than it might have been last year , I mean I , do we know how many that 's , we 're talking about ? |
| 17 | It could have been four years . |
| 18 | it could have been three years time before that surfaced . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) Resources were extremely limited — full implementation at Bristol was several years away — if applied across the company it could have been ten years from design to implementation . |
| 20 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 21 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 22 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 23 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |