Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 2 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 3 | By the time I had been there a year , I walked and neighed like the Houys . |
| 4 | ‘ Christina , I know I 've been here a year longer than you but I 'm sure you 've worked these things out for yourself by now . |
| 5 | Actually I 've been here a year . |
| 6 | Following her second disappearance her father wrote , ‘ I 've had little hopes of her — I consider what I write — since she has been half a year old . ’ |
| 7 | Her mother said : ‘ Those former foster parents , who she 's been once a year to Spain with , they have been able to give her the luxuries that I could not afford to give her . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 9 | It had been nearly a year ago , when the postman had delivered a letter postmarked Venice to the little cottage in Wales she had shared with her grandmother . |
| 10 | It had been over a year since Katherine had seen him and again she was struck by the magnetism of those coal dark eyes , the indolence of his gestures as he took her hand and playfully brought it to his lips . |
| 11 | It had been quite a year , in more ways than one … |
| 12 | It had been almost a year since she had found herself alone with a man in a bedroom , voluntarily , at least . |
| 13 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 14 | Well it 's been quite a year overall , has n't it ? |