Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv prt] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE fight against terrorism may have been put back years by a monster IRA bomb which wrecked Ulster 's forensic science HQ . |
| 2 | ‘ He must have been let out years ago , ’ said Preston . |
| 3 | The barracks should have been torn down years ago , but the fort 's current proprietors , the Archaeological Survey of India , have lovingly continued the work of decay initiated by the British : white marble pavilions have been allowed to discolour ; plasterwork has been left to collapse ; the water channels have cracked and grassed over ; the fountains are dry . |
| 4 | But if the Newton Cap Viaduct Protection Group had not fought so well , the elegant crossing might have been torn down years ago . |
| 5 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |