Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 2 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 3 | Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago . |
| 4 | Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago . |
| 5 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 6 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |