Example sentences of "[verb] been a [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 2 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 3 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 4 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 5 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 6 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 7 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 8 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |