Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 2 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 3 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 4 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her . |