Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 2 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 3 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 4 | They are for the session 1993–94 . |
| 5 | The number of pupils giving such answers is higher when the whole number part of the measurement is the same , and highest when all the numbers are of the form 0 . |
| 6 | ’ It does n't help whatever year it is , if you 're in the bottom three or four in the league . |
| 7 | You 're on the water 24 hours a day . |
| 8 | There are along the route four long tunnels , each of which would have required attention . |
| 9 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 10 | A lot of people may like you , but it can be more useful to know a smaller , selective number — like the managing director 's secretary , for instance , who 's been with the company twenty-five years , and who loves to chat and fill you in on the history . |
| 11 | An aftermath of the season was the award of another benefit match , for the outside-left Croot , who had been with the club seven years . |
| 12 | ‘ The prospects at the moment look pretty good , ’ said Simmons , a bright and optimistic 28-year-old who has been with the AA seven years . |
| 13 | We get people you say well I , you know somebody told me a couple of months back how to use the diary system by you know putting the note in and then dating it when you want to remind yourself been in the company ten years you know all this sort of stuff and it 's just useful bits you know the whole and all this sort of stuff . |
| 14 | They 're all trainees when you 've been in the company ten years , twenty years you can still be a trainee learning something new . |
| 15 | I have been in the company forty years . |
| 16 | Therefore , the date of the Gospel is likely to have been in the decade 60–70 AD . |
| 17 | The father had only been in the country six months and had no means of supporting his son . |
| 18 | He 's American and only been in the country two weeks . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd been in the country 2 years before being arrested and had gone to Goa to spend Christmas with friends . |
| 20 | The customs accounts there for the decade 1450–60 show that the average annual export of broadcloths , by both denizens and aliens , was a third lower than it had been in the years 1440–50 ( 94 , pp.334–5 ) . ’ |
| 21 | Nancy , who had been in the Waaf two weeks longer than me , was recommended for her Corporal 's stripes . |
| 22 | Lazano , who has been in the force five years , will be sentenced on January 24 . |
| 23 | Lazano , who has been in the force five years , will be sentenced on January 24 . |
| 24 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 25 | That that er had been in the flat two days before . |
| 26 | Under his aegis , the gulf in personal resources between rich and poor became very much wider than it had been in the period 1945–79 . |
| 27 | that 's been in the fridge nine weeks |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been in the League five years and have decided now is the time to really go for promotion . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He had only been in the house four minutes at the most when he suddenly turned to me and said : ‘ Would you come to dinner with me tonight ? ’ . |
| 30 | He began , ‘ You have been in the House fifteen years and it 's time you were promoted … and I now want you to go to the Board of Education . |