Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 2 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 4 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 5 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 6 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 7 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 8 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 9 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 10 | She has been there for two years . |
| 11 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 12 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 13 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 14 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 15 | They rarely live in temperatures of less than 25C ( 75F ) and the banks on which they grow are mainly between three and five , and only occasionally more than five , fathoms deep . |
| 16 | Employers who claim they can stand aside from com from com from competitive pressure to undercut are truly on one . |
| 17 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 18 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 19 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 20 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 21 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 22 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 23 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 24 | It is this assumption , however , which is the basis of claims that the ‘ most distant quasars known are upwards of 10000 million light years away from us , receding at more than 90 per cent of the speed of light . |
| 25 | Irate boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 26 | IRATE boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 28 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 29 | Iago had brought him , and Iago should have been here within two more days to take him away , somewhat recovered now and strong enough to continue his flight into Wales . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been between half-past seven and eight . ’ |