Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was apprenticed as a toolmaker at Vickers Armstrong and has been thirty five years as the college lecturer at Colchester Institute . |
| 2 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 3 | Yeah , well you should of done that five hands ago and then you 'd have been seventy five pence down ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 7 | There 'd gave been five five engines |
| 8 | and that a week before it happened , what 's happened to her , cos she do n't hear from her , and she said you know , I , it 's been twenty five years since my mum died Anne , she said and if I did n't make a life , |