Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have been [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |
| 2 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
| 3 | Their increase in money wages had been from 21s 9d to 36s ( £1.08 — £1.80 ) , an increase of 66 per cent . |
| 4 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cumulative total of all taxes from North sea oil has been since 1979 in 1991-92 prices . |
| 5 | Sylvie suddenly remembered how uncomfortable in his own skin Leo had been at fourteen . |
| 6 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |