Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |
| 2 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 3 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 4 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
| 5 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 6 | It must have been two month old . |
| 7 | ‘ It must have been one hell of a party . |
| 8 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 9 | There was a heel-bone , in particular , which Dr Macleod said was such , that if the foot was in proportion , it must have been twenty-seven inches long . |
| 10 | On we went , it must have been three hours by now . |
| 11 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 12 | Oh it might have been eight pounds . |
| 13 | it might have been eight pound qui Judy , but she said that they had fifteen |
| 14 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 15 | It could have been four years . |
| 16 | it could have been three years time before that surfaced . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Resources were extremely limited — full implementation at Bristol was several years away — if applied across the company it could have been ten years from design to implementation . |
| 18 | For all we knew it could have been 12 feet , since the weather was so bad at the top we could see no further than someone wearing a ski anorak and wellingtons sitting beside us . |
| 19 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 20 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 21 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 22 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 23 | It would have been nine wickets , but Lewis Eckett , editor of Club Horror , was Absent Without Leave . |
| 24 | Then it would have been twenty-five metres of snow slide and a final trip down a thirty-metre vertical chasm into a mix of ice and ice-cold water . |
| 25 | Erm it would have been three days cos that 's ninety odd quid , ninety six quid . |
| 26 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |