Example sentences of "year [adv] [pron] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for several years now there have been low cost cameras like Polaroid 's Palette that provided a quick and effective alternative for those who either needed total confidentiality or were simply rather less fussy about the quality . |
| 2 | For years now there have been thousands of letters written about tennis players . |
| 3 | Six years ago she had been tongue-tied in his presence , and terrified by the strength of her reaction to him , her fear manifesting itself physically , stopping the breath in her throat , tensing her muscles and making her nerves leap every time he moved or spoke to anyone , and the rare occasions on which his glance had strayed idly in her direction , it had actually hurt her . |
| 4 | A few years ago he had been one of the best-paid dancers in Flamenco . |
| 5 | And ten years ago he had been hurt worst of all when the Zionist Air Force , the E-16s and the E-15s , had come to Tuwaithah out of the setting sun to put down 16 tons of explosive ordnance onto the Osirak reactor . |
| 6 | Until a few years ago it had been clear that the courts would be prepared in such situations to exhibit a marked degree of ‘ tenderness ’ towards wives in such cases , greater tenderness in fact than would be applied to any other third party surety . |
| 7 | In 1974 there were 1.4 regular whole-time workers for every full-time holding ; ten years earlier it had been 2.1 . |
| 8 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 9 | As recent as a year ago there had been little confidence about the future for sheep with lambs selling poorly , farmers wondering whether it was worth spending money on good rams or even worth tupping their ewes . |
| 10 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 11 | But before doing that er , you may reasonably ask what action we 've taken er , during this year when it 's been such a difficult year . |
| 12 | Saying it 'd been a year when it 's been ten ! |
| 13 | In a year when there has been considerable fund-raising to meet the Irish Ladies Hockey Union 's initial £m target , to help stage the World Cup finals in Dublin in July , Ulster officials are delighted to have successfully negotiated a year 's extension on Renault 's sponsorship of their senior leagues . |