Example sentences of "have been [prep] [adj] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the post-war period , expenditure on the military has been between 5 and 10 per cent of GDP . |
| 2 | The average audience has been between 200,000 and 250,000 . |
| 3 | It is currently considered that a House consisting of some 650 members is appropriate ; the figure has been between 600 and 650 for many decades although there is nothing magic about this particular size . |
| 4 | In this case we can calculate that the average output per obverse die must have been between 23,000 and 47,000 . |
| 5 | He never had a chance of getting the money , which would have been between 10 and 12 times the amount in circulation in the UK at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the burial period must have been between 1400 and 1000 B.C. , a time far distant from the legendary date of the battle between Coilus and Fergus . |
| 7 | She says : ‘ People have a very cliched view of the middle East , but my impression , having been to three or four Arab countries , is that it is grossly misrepresented in the western press . |
| 8 | The viewing figures are estimated to have been between 100,000 and 150,000 . |
| 9 | A parliamentary committee in 1799 considered there to have been between 4,000 and 5,000 women working at copper mines , but this was an overestimate for an enumeration of 1838 , after a considerable expansion , counted 4,526 . |
| 10 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 11 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 12 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 13 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 14 | There had been in 1983 and 1984 , two great festivals of athletics : the first ever World Championships in Helsinki and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , respectively . |
| 15 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 16 | I think I think I 've been to one or two in York . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 18 | The government and , to a lesser extent , the Labour opposition , have been at sixes and sevens over interpretation and legality for months . |
| 19 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |