Example sentences of "they [verb] been [adj] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 2 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 3 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 4 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 5 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
| 6 | As you were aware , they had been involved in Three Hills in er developing Ayletts Field and successfully with us on our our most recent one . |
| 7 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 8 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 9 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 10 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 11 | They have been vacant for three months . |
| 12 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 13 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 14 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 15 | These three genera seem to form a natural grouping ( Box 2 ) and in the past they have been confused with one another : in commenting on the original description of the Buluk specimens , Deslon suggested that they should be attributed to Kenyapithecus ( rather than to Sivapithecus , as they then were ) , and in an addendum to their original description of Heliopithecus , Andrews and Martin recognized the affinities of that genus to Afropithecus , which was published just before Heliopithecus . |
| 16 | Although authors have arrived at different figures , thus reflecting the inherent difficulty and speculative nature of the task involved , they have been unanimous in one conclusion : persons are deprived of far more money by corporate crimes than they are by ordinary economic crimes , such as robbery , theft , larceny , and auto-theft . |