Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [num] years ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Royle should have been appointed two years ago . |
| 2 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 3 | The dispute should have been settled 53 years ago when the 1930 Reservoirs Act ruled that the owners of all reservoirs containing more than 23 million litres must have them inspected and repaired regularly . |
| 4 | Detectives say it could be another six weeks before they can formally identify the body of a woman believed to have been murdered twenty years ago . |
| 5 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 6 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 7 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 8 | Special considerations : the appellant 's niece , a young woman of similar age , had been killed 20 years ago in circumstances which may have amounted to murder , but no one was arrested . |
| 9 | For Ruth had been married to Connor 's brother Sean , and her first child — a fine boy called Danny — had been born four years ago . |
| 10 | If B. Hunslett had been born 50 years ago , he would have been an ideal candidate for the Hitler Youth Movement . |
| 11 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 12 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 13 | Gerald Crawford , spokesman for the FCC , rejected the criticism , saying procedures had been changed three years ago to make sure confiscated nets were not passed back to poachers . |
| 14 | The inquest had heard that changes to the hot water system at the home where the boy died had been ordered five years ago , but that the work was only done AFTER the boy 's death . |
| 15 | And as the Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , told a conference on teacher education in 1976 , ‘ if a meeting on teacher education had been held four years ago , the Council would not have been invited to attend ’ . |
| 16 | Drill , he had been told thirty years ago , is a curious aspect of training . |