Example sentences of "[vb past] been a great [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 2 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
| 3 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 4 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 5 | But the similarity goes further : Miltiades had been a great figure in the early colonial days of Athens : his pocket principality in the Chersonese was in the van of Pisistratid expansion ( for good relations between the tyrants and Miltiades in the 520s see the archon-list ML 6 = Fornara 23 , belying Herodotus : Miltiades had held high office under the tyrants ) . |