Example sentences of "been four " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been four different interpretations of the economic record of the Thatcher government to date . |
| 2 | In the thirty-two years that have passed since Suez , there have only been four such occasions when the wheel has been put over : |
| 3 | Since last May , when the Bank of Japan ended its easy-money policy , there have been four increases in the official discount rate ( from 2.5% to 5.25% ) . |
| 4 | The London Emergency Bed Service reports that this winter things have been four times as hard as last year , and my experience confirms this . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , where there had been four interlinked Catholic countries before November 1558 , France , Spain , England and Scotland , there were now three ; the possibility of advancing the Protestant cause in Scotland with help from England , dead for five years , was once again open . |
| 6 | There have been four main stages in the growth of our knowledge of genetics : Weismann 's concept of the independence of germ line and soma ; the establishment of an atomic theory of heredity following the rediscovery of Mendel 's laws in 1900 : the chromosome theory of heredity , based in particular on the work of T. H. Morgan and his colleagues on the fruitfly Drosophila ; and the growth of molecular genetics , initiated by the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by Watson and Crick . |
| 7 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 8 | Hitherto there had only been four or five types available in England . |
| 9 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 10 | After five minutes , the Land Rover looked a hundred yards away , but must have been four hundred . |
| 11 | Scholars have not been four weeks connected with the school up to the Sabbath preceding the Festival not to be eligible for admission . |
| 12 | Until 1961 des Forges and Harber recorded 11 and there have been four since , at Sidlesham on 8 September 1968 , and three in 1973 ; at Beachy Head on 10 May and 1 June and at Rye on 13 June . |
| 13 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 14 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 15 | Sgt. Bamberger then spotted four more coming down out of the sun ( these were likely to have been four of the original six , making their second swoop ) . |
| 16 | After nearly two years without a major catastrophic spinal rugby injury in the United States , there have been four in the last half of 1991 . |
| 17 | Here , I used four different designs as they add interest , but they could easily have been four matching designs . |
| 18 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 19 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 20 | There had been four in the cruiser . |
| 21 | There had been four men in the car . |
| 22 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |
| 23 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |
| 24 | I would say that there have been four since the early nineteenth century . |
| 25 | the whole lot and then a four down there it would have been four but four Os only one S. |
| 26 | Up to now there have been four methods of regulating supply and demand , all equally iniquitous . |
| 27 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 28 | It could have been four years . |
| 29 | It had been four days since the of worlder had said what he thought would be required , and still parin had not provided his answer . |
| 30 | There have though been four related developments . |