Example sentences of "have been [noun] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 2 | Cooper , painstaking but unassuming , has been secretary since 1978 and now becomes vice-chairman . |
| 3 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 4 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 5 | Outside council business Mr is a representative of the Langstone Harbour Board activities the Lord Chancellor 's advisory committee and has been governor of five local schools . |
| 6 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 7 | There has been talk of one or two members taking a trip to Llandrindod in Victorian week — Social Secretary . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 9 | ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’ |
| 10 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 11 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 12 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 13 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits in the last financial year were £28.3m , having been £9.4m in 1986-87 . |
| 15 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
| 16 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |
| 17 | Mahgoub , 64 , had been Speaker since 1984 . |
| 18 | A hundred and fifty Bulmers workers from the distribution depot near the fire were evacuated to safety.And a roll call was taken to make sure no one else had been hurt.Meanwhile as fifty firefighters fought the flames , there was another explosion which hurled a sixty ton oil tank high into the air.It crashed down onto a fire engine : |
| 19 | The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , Arbeau , Frescobaldi , Froberger — in those years people suddenly realized that there had been music before 1700 . ’ |
| 20 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 21 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 22 | Another book on Burma , published in 1945 , was The Burma We Love , by U Kyaw Min , ICS , who had been secretary to three Premiers of Burma in turn , Dr Ba Maw , U Pu and U Saw , before the evacuation . |
| 23 | Say had been Treasurer since 1449 , so the attacks on him link local grievances with general hostility to the court . |
| 24 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |
| 25 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 26 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 27 | Sir Alan Sykes had been Chairman since 1921 , and a Governor since 1901 when his father had died . |
| 28 | Parish council chairman Peter Foster said there had been reports of one of two buses using the road following a ban on school buses , imposed by the county council after campaigning by residents . |
| 29 | Accounts published during the bankruptcy proceedings in 1935 suggested that the subscription income had been £6,848 in 1925 , £604 in 1928 and afterwards less than £400 a year . |
| 30 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |