Example sentences of "been four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have already been four drug related murders in South London this year , and more than seventy incidents involving firearms . |
| 2 | Since January there have been four bombings within the United States apparently linked with Islamic or Middle East matters . |
| 3 | There have been four drugs related killings in the area this year . |
| 4 | There have been four attempts to grapple with these tensions through restructuring or internal reorganisation . |
| 5 | The London Emergency Bed Service reports that this winter things have been four times as hard as last year , and my experience confirms this . |
| 6 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |
| 7 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |
| 8 | There had been four women members in the outgoing Majlis , and in the April 10 vote for the first time a women was elected to represent a constituency outside Tehran ( in the holy city of Mashad ) . |
| 9 | During that same period of time Italy 's average growth in industrial production has been four percent , compared to the U K's one point nine . |
| 10 | At Dixons electrical store nearby , there have been four smash and grab raids this year . |
| 11 | Scholars have not been four weeks connected with the school up to the Sabbath preceding the Festival not to be eligible for admission . |
| 12 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 13 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 14 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 15 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 16 | It could have been four years . |
| 17 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |
| 18 | But Luke , she remembered , had been four years old , tall for his age but thin as a stick and pale with excitement , that day , at the journey to Manchester , the speeches , the exalted , psalm-singing atmosphere of the crowds . |
| 19 | It had been four years since Jessamy had seen her , and she did n't seem to have changed at all . |
| 20 | We 've done it , we 've been four years , you know |
| 21 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 24 | There had been four men in the car . |
| 25 | Since last May , when the Bank of Japan ended its easy-money policy , there have been four increases in the official discount rate ( from 2.5% to 5.25% ) . |
| 26 | Up to now there have been four methods of regulating supply and demand , all equally iniquitous . |
| 27 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |