Example sentences of "[verb] been three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 2 | At the same time Brotherton ( 1983 ) using documentary evidence has demonstrated that the rate of afforestation has been three times greater outside the National Parks . |
| 3 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 6 | On we went , it must have been three hours by now . |
| 7 | Erm it would have been three days cos that 's ninety odd quid , ninety six quid . |
| 8 | Now , if she had gone to lunch with Dorothea Shottery after all , there would have been three people to talk to . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | it could have been three years time before that surfaced . |
| 12 | Mary Elliott , mum of Paul 's girlfriend Lynne Rootham , said : ‘ If the baby had n't been up , there would have been three corpses in the house . ’ |
| 13 | Its leaders were said to have been three executives of the Salsabil computer company , who were now under arrest . |
| 14 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 15 | There had been three girls and a woman at first , now there was only this one . |
| 16 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 17 | The wafer had been three inches long and one and a half inches wide , and had been inserted between the two strands of leather precisely against the young man 's backbone . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | It had been three years since Katherine Lundy had shot the man she had once loved . |
| 20 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 21 | It had been three years for Ace . |
| 22 | According to BAFTA 's rules , the panel chairman votes only if there is a tie in the jury of seven — which would have come about if , for example , there had been three votes each for Prime Suspect and GBH and one for one of the other nominees such as the BBC 's Clarissa . |
| 23 | According to BAFTA 's rules , the chairman of the panel votes only if there is a tie in the jury of seven — which would have come about if , for example , there had been three votes each for Prime Suspect and GBH and one for one of the other nominees such as the BBC 's Clarissa . |
| 24 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 25 | There had been three deaths in the family in as many years . |
| 26 | It had been three days since she 'd seen Luke , three days that she 'd spent trying to get him out of her system , but she could n't deny the sudden rush of emotion at the thought of seeing him again . |
| 27 | Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez . |
| 28 | It had been three weeks since they had last met . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | There have been three interventions — |