Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 2 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 3 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 4 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 5 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 6 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 7 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 8 | So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second . |
| 9 | Well Peter , I 'd I 'd love to say yes , as you know , but erm they 've gone to Swindon the last two years since United have been back in the second division , and really they 've performed dismally . |
| 10 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 11 | Hand dragged furniture had been around since the 18th century . |
| 12 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 13 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 14 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 15 | Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done . |
| 16 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 17 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 18 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 19 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 20 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 21 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 22 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 23 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 24 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 26 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 27 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 28 | City had been ahead from the 12th minute when full-back Hill was left unmarked at a Brennan corner and took advantage with a crisp header . |