Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 2 | However , one of the most significant trends of the last three decades has been a steady growth in the number of women in the labour force . |
| 3 | Oh yes , of course it was , the last three years have been a recession , what else would you expect . |
| 4 | The last two or three years have been a testing time for the 180 people who work at Angered . |
| 5 | Colleagues , as the resolution says and as we all know , we 've all experienced it , the last fourteen years have been a catalogue of disaster after disaster for all sections of the society , and especially the disadvantaged , those the young , the elderly , the disabled and the unemployed , all been attacked . |
| 6 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 7 | The past ten years had been a long , strange and often puzzling journey for Mike Oldfield . |
| 8 | And every day of those five weeks has been a knife slowly twisting in a wound . |
| 9 | In fact , the most significant change in the last twenty years has been a cultural trend towards less formal minute-taking in meetings . |
| 10 | But these past four weeks had been a nightmare no ambassador should have to live through . |
| 11 | Its dereliction over the past two years had been a constant topic of conversation . |
| 12 | Russia 's most wretched political problem over the past two years has been a failure to separate the powers of president and parliament . |
| 13 | The last four years have been a nightmare that would n't go away , no matter what I did . |
| 14 | He says some of the M-forty accidents have been a result of drivers suffering from fatigue . |