Example sentences of "[been] in [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 2 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 4 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 5 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 6 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 7 | Except treasury bonds , no bonds may be publicly bought and sold unless the issuer has been in business for over a year , the prospectus has been appropriately published and the issue is gone through an issuing house , and the prospectus has been approved by the Authority . |
| 8 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 9 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |