Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At several sites , the last six months have been the driest for over a century . |
| 2 | Moggach 's last three books have been the social dramas Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( adapted from her own television scripts ) , and the thriller The Stand-In . |
| 3 | Current trading is erm current trading is improving and I would say that er that the last three weeks have been the strongest weeks this year . |
| 4 | Under the previous rules fourteen hours had been the maximum shift allowed . |
| 5 | One of the major features of the growth of our education system over the last thirty-five years has been the enormous increase in provision of higher education . |
| 6 | The marriage which he contemplated for Matilda was with one of the most powerful of the new barons of the Conqueror , Count Alan Rufus , lord of Richmond , who for twenty-five years had been the greatest man in the north of England and one of the most constant witnesses of English royal charters : a central character , therefore , in the government of England , but a potential menace in the semi-conquered North . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 8 | If the first of the two roads had been the right one to take , that would be an end of the matter . |
| 9 | The most striking feature of British economic history over the last two decades has been the stop-go cycle . |
| 10 | For over three decades these two countries have been the unwilling recipients of acid rain ‘ export ’ on a massive scale . |
| 11 | The great lie of the last two hundred years has been the mistaken idea that realism is a way of telling the truth . |
| 12 | The first two years had been the hardest — there was hardly a piece of equipment in the kitchen that did n't have a hospital properly stamp on it somewhere — but things had grown steadily better since . |
| 13 | The position of the two sexes has been the exact opposite in relation to further education , and to teacher training . |
| 14 | The last eight miles had been the worst up to that point , and yet I had gone faster than ever before . |