Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 2 | It jumped headfirst into the 1980s property boom and is now paying the price : the ebbing tide has revealed not only severe recession damage , but also gaping holes which should have been plugged years ago . |
| 3 | So , what did you think of the adverts ? of Decommissioning and Waste Management 's Transport Technology Department felt that the idea of the high-profile campaign was ‘ good , but it should have been done years ago ’ . |
| 4 | " It could have been done years ago , but nobody was really interested in it . " |
| 5 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 6 | If England were looking to the future then some of the players should have been selected years ago . |
| 7 | It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago . |
| 8 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |
| 9 | Thus , when the stone ramparts had been constructed years ago , there had been no mistress of Tracy Castle , and the pleasance had been abandoned and left outside the boundaries of the bailey . |
| 10 | The land had been raped years past by the sea . |
| 11 | The transition period after leaving institutional care has also been documented as a critical time , when young people may be forced to return to the unhappy home situation from which they had been removed years earlier . |