Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably . |
| 32 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 33 | Of the temporary jobs concerned , nearly three quarters ( 70 per cent ) had been for six months or less ( Stern , 1982 ) . |
| 34 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 35 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 36 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 37 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 38 | A renowned ( albeit not a very successful ) crusader who had been on three expeditions , he had met and been entertained by the ablest monarchs in Europe . |
| 39 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 40 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 41 | According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs . |
| 42 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 43 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 44 | He had been round 18 holes at Wentworth , if only on a buggy , and spent an hour in the weights room working on his upper body . |
| 45 | When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla , Hazel had been in two minds . |
| 46 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 47 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 48 | We 've been through three names already . |
| 49 | Winter 's father said afterwards : ‘ We 've been through 20 months of sheer hell . |
| 50 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 51 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 52 | I 've been to eight countries in the last two weeks . |
| 53 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 54 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 55 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 56 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 57 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 58 | The analysis of the data thus obtained was in two parts . |
| 59 | The range from the firing point to where the rounds impacted was between 35 metres ( the shot that hit Barling ) and 30 metres ( the ones that hit the pillar ) … ’ |
| 60 | All rates quoted are per 1000 women-years . |