Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
2 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
3 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
4 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
5 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
6 | It had been three years for Ace . |
7 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
8 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |
9 | ‘ The Doctor says it 's been three years for you , ’ the Professor said . |