Example sentences of "[num] [noun] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said . |
| 2 | THE last six months have been tough for John Major . |
| 3 | Yet the past five-ten years have been remarkable for the amount of attention given in America to such principles . |
| 4 | The past six weeks have been full . |
| 5 | Up to five pairs were present annually from 1950 to 1960 , a single pair bred in 1965 and up to three pairs have been present annually since 1969 . |
| 6 | These three conceptions have been subject to various criticisms : that many of the discretionary powers are vested in officials and public bodies , that many officials and bodies have powers and immunities that the ordinary citizen does not have , and that certain rights have been modified by or enacted in statute . |
| 7 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 8 | Any politically informed Briton knows that two of the most politically controversial issues during the last three years have been monetary issues : exchange rate policy ( membership of the ERM ) and interest rate policy . |
| 9 | ‘ We know the last three years have been hard for you , Shai Tung . |
| 10 | Twenty-seven CABx have been involved in piloting the Lawtel service . |
| 11 | well , yes sh yes well , this , well this was only the highlights unless the last two or three , no the last two or three parts have been live . |
| 12 | Nearly sixty children have been involved in a coach crash while on a school outing . |
| 13 | A cast of 50 youngsters have been hard at work rehearsing the classic production since October . |
| 14 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 15 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 16 | Around 50 academics have been involved in developing the new curriculum . |
| 17 | The twelve months have been fraught with pressures from nature , such as flooding and drought as well as artificial problems from chemical pollutions . |
| 18 | Does not that answer prove that the past 13 years have been wasted years in terms of the Government 's commitment to the footwear industry ? |
| 19 | This might on the one hand have been positive pressure for improvement ; it could equally have been a move to prevent closure . |
| 20 | Since the 1920s women have been free of the burden of high fertility which previously would have given them young children to cope with for more than two decades of their adult life . |
| 21 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 22 | The largest concentration occurs fairly consistently in Chichester Harbour , where flocks of 40 to 60 birds have been annual since 1947 ; 130 were seen there on 18 December 1954 , the largest flock yet noted in the county , and there were 97 on 4 December 1971 . |
| 23 | Since the days of the Great War against Chaos the two brothers have been active in the defence of Ulthuan . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that the last eighteen months have been short of American patronage for European dealers ( a combined effect of general economic conditions , the aftermath of the Gulf War and the continued high value of the pound against the dollar ) , so the hope is that this year 's focus will bring the Yankee Doodle Dandies to town . |
| 25 | It is true one or two errors have been noticeable recently in the discharging of his duties , but these are in every case very trivial in nature . ’ |
| 26 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 27 | Thus the most influential sociologists researching on later life in the last thirty years have been first and foremost concerned with documenting poverty and need among the old , rather than looking at their present lives as a whole , or how they reached where they are now . |
| 28 | Graham Greene regarded Rider Haggard 's greatest achievement that he ‘ fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away ’ and he defined the sphere of imagination when he wrote of his memories of the characters in the Quatermain novels : |
| 29 | Two workers have been unable to meet the demand . |
| 30 | The last two years have been uncertain ones for the Gloucestershire regiment . |