Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 2 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 3 | The next thing that happened was six years after the Select Committee . |
| 4 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 5 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 6 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 7 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 8 | He had been the youngest ever to head the ancient , honourable Fiana ; there had been seven years within its ranks only , and he had been intoxicated with the knowledge . |
| 9 | ‘ It all looks ludicrous now ’ , observed David Widgery , ‘ but if you realize there had been twenty years of Cold War normalism this was a very exuberant reaction to the world of Pepsodent ads , and the father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal ? kind of thing which was still the prevailing mentality . |
| 10 | Beattie was a senior foreman and had been twenty years with his company . |
| 11 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 12 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 13 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 14 | It had been three years for Ace . |