Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] have been very " in BNC.
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| 1 | One newly-qualified accountant , who is considering a trip to the Far East for a few months , said winter was traditionally a busy time for accountants because companies are preparing for their financial year-ends but the last few months had been very quiet . |
| 2 | I feel some drivers have been very , very lucky and the last thing we want is to have complacency creeping in . |
| 3 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 4 | Yet the advances in multiple sclerosis in the last few years have been very encouraging . |
| 5 | Some centres had been very successful in training these children to make valuable objects . |
| 6 | A hood collar jacket and a shawl collar jacket , both these designs have been very popular . |
| 7 | Nursing the secret all these years has been very , very hard for me . |
| 8 | Certainly these reforms have been very unpopular in rural areas , particularly among the farmers and landowners who have seen their personal dominance finally slipping away in the merger with urban areas . |
| 9 | The reported decisions of the Divisional Court which have addressed the issues raised by these questions have been very numerous and the doctrine which finds full expression in the passage from the judgment of Bingham L.J . |
| 10 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 11 | However , the medical profession in many countries has been very reluctant to recognise them . |
| 12 | Those cuts have been very painful . |