Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [num] [noun] " 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 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 5 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 6 | Due to the emigration of the people of East Germany to the West — there had been two million people removing in the ten years up to 1961 — a wall was constructed between that part of Berlin controlled by the Communists and the other parts which were controlled by the Federal republic with Britain , France and the United States of America . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The figure budgeted for the whole year had been 40,000 million roubles . |
| 9 | ( Under Lome III the comparable figures for these four headings had been 5,460 million ECU ( for grants and special loans ) , 925 million ECU , 415 million ECU and 600 million ECU ) . |
| 10 | They had been married fourteen years and there were four strapping children . |
| 11 | The last one on the roll said 12.18 and we had been married eight minutes . |
| 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 | The first photo on the roll said 12.13 , and we had been married three minutes . |
| 16 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 17 | No she was there in the beginning with a , , then she left and , she had been married three years . |
| 18 | He was diving with his wife Deborah they had been married 15 days off the resort town of Byron Bay , 400 miles north of Sydney . |
| 19 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 20 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 21 | Sam came back frowning and , stretching inside without stepping into the water , pressed the three switches that had been unresponsive two days earlier . |
| 22 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 23 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 24 | Moreover , it was also draining the working class : in 1917 there had been three million workers employed in Russian industry , by the winter of 1920–1 the number had declined to 1,480,000 . |
| 25 | In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years . |
| 26 | 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 . |