Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] been [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wafer had been three inches long and one and a half inches wide , and had been inserted between the two strands of leather precisely against the young man 's backbone . |
| 2 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 3 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 4 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 5 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 6 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ The river had been ten feet up the previous week and I thing the chub had been pushed into the swim , ’ said Mick , 33 . |
| 8 | The servants say the doctor 's been three times but been forced to leave again without seeing him . |
| 9 | The audition had been one thing , the work–g through the part another — which is something it seems very hard for the audition process to make proper allowance for . |
| 10 | The appeal has been five years in the hearing . |