Example sentences of "have be [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Party has been victorious three times running increasing its majority each time . |
| 2 | He was apprenticed as a toolmaker at Vickers Armstrong and has been thirty five years as the college lecturer at Colchester Institute . |
| 3 | The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted . |
| 4 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 6 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 7 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 8 | But for this problem , the encouraging increase in student numbers in 1957- 58 — which was maintained in subsequent years and so marked the beginning of an upward trend — would probably have been apparent one year earlier . |
| 9 | Norman Rockwell would have been one hundred years old next year . |
| 10 | ‘ So if you were in your van you could n't have been two hundred yards away on the scaffolding behind Benson 's furniture shop ? ’ |
| 11 | At the Brixton Academy one stated : ‘ Last night , there ca n't have been two hundred people at the gig and I sold twice as many burgers and hot dogs than I did today . |
| 12 | There must have been five hundred varieties . |
| 13 | Yeah , well you should of done that five hands ago and then you 'd have been seventy five pence down ! |
| 14 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |
| 15 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 16 | It is now regularly available at their surgery as part of free NHS care , a situation which would have been inconceivable ten years ago . |
| 17 | Fifteen hundred pound if he was prepared to put a deposit down or something that would have been fifteen hundred quid . |
| 18 | Today there must have been fifteen hundred people here . |
| 19 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 20 | Studies like those described by Dean ( 1982 ) , in which he attempted to distinguish between deficits in visual memory and visual object categorization following damage to part of the visual association cortex in rhesus monkeys , would have been unthinkable forty years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 22 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 23 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 24 | ‘ Unix Lite would have been okay four years ago , but with the performance and memory capacity of today 's machines — and their future potential — we do n't need cut-down Unix . |
| 25 | if we 'd have started de it 'd have been another six months , no disrespect to Adrian but , you know , I , I just know the history of how it would have progressed . |
| 26 | In February 1973 , when I first decided to make the journey , there can have been few twenty-eight year olds who were less fit for the task . |
| 27 | He could have been seven hundred miles away , his hand holding the side curtain open a little and staring out at the darkness . |
| 28 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 29 | However , without the budget changes the deficit would reportedly have been 20,000,000 million zloty greater . |
| 30 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |