Example sentences of "[verb] [be] three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been three years since the galleries were last open , but according to Dr Mino , most of the material has been in the basement for half a century . |
| 2 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 3 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 4 | it could have been three years time before that surfaced . |
| 5 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 6 | It had been three years since Katherine Lundy had shot the man she had once loved . |
| 7 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 8 | It had been three years for Ace . |
| 9 | ‘ Modigliani ’ , someone said , ‘ you 've been three years fiddling about with one type of head and you 'll be another three on the new design . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been three years since we conducted a national campaign , ’ says Mr Pickles . |
| 11 | ‘ The Doctor says it 's been three years for you , ’ the Professor said . |
| 12 | Tommy Chase Quartet Arts Centre , Darlington IT 'S BEEN three years since the Tommy Chase Quartet last played in Darlington and in that time the other players have changed completely . |