Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
| 2 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 3 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
| 4 | It has been six weeks , almost , but the friendly hot flush fills me to the top of my head and it is beautiful . |
| 5 | It has been 14 years since we had an expedition book from him . |
| 6 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 7 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 8 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 9 | It has been three years since the galleries were last open , but according to Dr Mino , most of the material has been in the basement for half a century . |
| 10 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 11 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 12 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
| 13 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 14 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |
| 15 | It had been four years since Jessamy had seen her , and she did n't seem to have changed at all . |
| 16 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |
| 17 | It had been four days since the of worlder had said what he thought would be required , and still parin had not provided his answer . |
| 18 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 19 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |
| 20 | Christ , it had been one hell of a thrash , an absolute bloody classic . |
| 21 | It had been one thing to be suddenly full of Dutch courage at the thought that Freddie Nash , having seen Eleanor again , had decided to seek her out . |
| 22 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 23 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 24 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 25 | In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) . |
| 26 | It had been eight years since the council published its accounts on time . |
| 27 | to do these at home I said well it had been twenty hours or nothing cos me and my old man do n't speak ! |
| 28 | It had been three years since Katherine Lundy had shot the man she had once loved . |
| 29 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 30 | It had been three years for Ace . |