Example sentences of "[verb] been [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 2 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 3 | It has been six weeks , almost , but the friendly hot flush fills me to the top of my head and it is beautiful . |
| 4 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |
| 5 | It has been 14 years since we had an expedition book from him . |
| 6 | The appeal has been five years in the hearing . |
| 7 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 8 | The inter-church document tackling the issue of sectarianism has been five years in the making . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
| 11 | There has been 12 letters of objection to the final stretch to Ballyduggan Mill lodged and it is expected that a meeting between all the parties involved will take place to see if there is some way of reconciling the objections . |
| 12 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 13 | At the same time Brotherton ( 1983 ) using documentary evidence has demonstrated that the rate of afforestation has been three times greater outside the National Parks . |
| 14 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 15 | It has been three years since the galleries were last open , but according to Dr Mino , most of the material has been in the basement for half a century . |
| 16 | Since 1940 , the retirement age for women has been 60 years , five years earlier than for men . |
| 17 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 18 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 19 | The average attendance in the 121 years of its existence has been 60–80 pupils . |
| 20 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 21 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 22 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 23 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 24 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 25 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |
| 26 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 27 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 28 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 29 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 30 | It would have been nine wickets , but Lewis Eckett , editor of Club Horror , was Absent Without Leave . |