Example sentences of "been [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously the longest period without a lost day accident at the site , where paint manufacturer started in 1990 , had been 372 days , achieved in 1989 . |
| 2 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 3 | What was perhaps most crucial to the success of Impressionism in financial terms was its modern stance , as closely identified with contemporary life at the turn of the century as Romanticism had been fifty years before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 6 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 7 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 8 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 9 | Finally he suggested that Mr Hancock must have been 180 degrees off-course . |
| 10 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | There have been 70 changes of Labour party policy . |
| 13 | Oh it might have been eight pounds . |
| 14 | there 's been eight miners trapped down in Yorkshire but the election |
| 15 | Since registration , there have already been eight examinations , all of which were passed with flying colours , at all times , a company representative or deputy has to be on call ready to answer any questions . |
| 16 | To date there have been eight experiments , all but one of which used photons rather than protons . |
| 17 | She had been eight years old and that was sixteen years ago . |
| 18 | Old enough to take care of himself , while she had been eight years old . |
| 19 | It had been eight years since the council published its accounts on time . |
| 20 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been eight days now . ’ |
| 22 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 23 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |
| 24 | In 1910 there had been 315,281 Germans , 9,491 Poles , 2,124 Kaszubians and 3,021 others living in the area that was to become the Free City . |
| 25 | The BBC said there had been 12 calls about the programme some complimentary . |
| 26 | For all we knew it could have been 12 feet , since the weather was so bad at the top we could see no further than someone wearing a ski anorak and wellingtons sitting beside us . |
| 27 | During the last 30 years there have been 12 accidents around the world that have caused serious damage to a reactor core . |
| 28 | There has been 12 letters of objection to the final stretch to Ballyduggan Mill lodged and it is expected that a meeting between all the parties involved will take place to see if there is some way of reconciling the objections . |
| 29 | As part of the Minister 's annus mirabilis — no doubt he would say that there have been 12 anni mirabilis ; I think that that is right — |
| 30 | Yes well we save , we possibly saved that time , most of was was completely er occupied , so if we had n't have seen the fire , there could have been forty lives or forty families at risk there . |