Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 3 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 4 | It is now regularly available at their surgery as part of free NHS care , a situation which would have been inconceivable ten years ago . |
| 5 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 6 | Studies like those described by Dean ( 1982 ) , in which he attempted to distinguish between deficits in visual memory and visual object categorization following damage to part of the visual association cortex in rhesus monkeys , would have been unthinkable forty years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 8 | ‘ Unix Lite would have been okay four years ago , but with the performance and memory capacity of today 's machines — and their future potential — we do n't need cut-down Unix . |
| 9 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 10 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 11 | They had been married fourteen years and there were four strapping children . |
| 12 | The couple had been married nine years . |
| 13 | After losing his wife he had nearly gone to pieces ; yet they had been married six years . |
| 14 | She had been married 19 years ; they had no children together , but each had a son from a previous marriage . |
| 15 | No she was there in the beginning with a , , then she left and , she had been married three years . |
| 16 | Teachers had begun to realise there was a strong case for the teaching of knowledge about language in ways very different from those that had been fashionable thirty years earlier . |
| 17 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |
| 18 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been ready three years , Victor . ’ |
| 20 | Of those who have been married thirty years or more , only 4.3 per cent divorce . |
| 21 | George and Helen have been married forty-five years . |
| 22 | He 's been married thirty years , he 's got three children , erm , Nick who 's twenty six , Caroline who 's twenty two , and Christopher , fourteen . |