Example sentences of "must have been a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 2 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 3 | There must have been a dozen rotundas , each displaying blow-ups of contemporary newspaper clippings , photographs , posters , etc . |
| 4 | It must have been a dozen years since they were last used . |
| 5 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |