Example sentences of "[verb] been ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Resources were extremely limited — full implementation at Bristol was several years away — if applied across the company it could have been ten years from design to implementation . |
| 2 | On that occasion he had been ten years old As children between the wars , Yanto and his friends spent most of their Summers out in the estuary between tides . |
| 3 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 4 | The division of the movement suggested this and the spectre of a resurgent Germany under Hitler 's leadership made Fascism as alien as Bolshevism had been ten years before . |
| 5 | He had been ten years old at the time of Herbert 's wedding ; his name was Max Beerbohm ; the story is recounted in Lord David Cecil 's Max , A Biography ; the date was 1882 , and sillabub , added Max , was then his favourite dish . |
| 6 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 7 | Within the last ten years , I 've been ten years activ actively concerned with the old aged pensioners ' association and er the Labour movement . |
| 8 | I 'm gettin' too old for that — it 's been ten years , time for me to chill . |
| 9 | It 's been ten years , after all . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think that 's why he has n't remarried , although it 's been ten years now … |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been ten years . |