Example sentences of "would [verb] [been] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The contract would have been worth five million pounds .
2 otherwise I would have been on two fifty .
3 He never had a chance of getting the money , which would have been between 10 and 12 times the amount in circulation in the UK at the moment . ’
4 However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date .
5 They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it .
6 Well it would have been at one time .
7 Instead it 's A two which would have been at nine o'clock and
8 We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago .
9 Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’
10 I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality .
11 In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 .
12 Both are drawn from archival and historical records and show the High Street as it would have been in 1540 , at the close of the last independent century of Scottish culture and accomplishment when 22 kings , queens and princes lay undisturbed and revered by pilgrims in the abbey .
13 She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 .
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