Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |
| 2 | At three o'clock in the morning of Tuesday 20 May , Frank Foley and Edward Carrington watched a Dornier 217 taxi to a halt between the lines of flares that had been lit ten minutes previously at RAF Lincoln . |
| 3 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 4 | He favoured less one that had been taken ten years before in which his bowler hat and suit are typical of a provincial businessman . |
| 5 | A favourite a couple of years ago was a letter issued from an American bank that had been issued three years previously . ’ |
| 6 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |
| 7 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 8 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 9 | The museum already has a comprehensive library donated as a bequest from Paul Maenz , the former Cologne gallery owner , and has been given fifty-five works of art by a West German group of industrialists . |
| 10 | ‘ Michael Stein pleaded guilty and has been fined 2000 Barbados dollars . |
| 11 | Spielberg , accustomed to close encounters in the extra-terrestrial sphere , has offered to be creative consultant on a drama-documentary loosely based upon the book , which has sold over 300,000 hardback copies in the UK and has been reprinted fourteen times . |
| 12 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 13 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 14 | Tony Chivers reported that a number of villagers had volunteered to be footpath representatives and had been allocated two paths each , which they had agreed to walk at least twice a year . |
| 15 | We are situated on Brighton 's seafront and have been granted 3 Crowns rating by English Tourist Board . |
| 16 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |