Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 2 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 3 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 6 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 7 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 8 | She 's been gone two years and you never asked before . ’ |
| 9 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |
| 10 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 11 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 12 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 13 | Drill , he had been told thirty years ago , is a curious aspect of training . |