Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 2 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 3 | He was really annoyed , he 'd been there twelve years |
| 4 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 5 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 6 | The Manageress there erm I was there and she , I , after I 'd been there eighteen months , she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray , one of the girls took up her , because she was n't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money . |
| 7 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 8 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 9 | Christopher Knox , defending , said O'Brian had been just 100 yards from where nine men were killed in the Gulf War friendly fire blunder . |
| 10 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 11 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 12 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 13 | Although six per cent said they had , half said the difficulty had been over five years ago . |
| 14 | Tony Harrison recounts a story about a meeting which is likely to become apocryphal : ‘ There had been over ten accidents in a year on one particular plant and a meeting was held to consider targets for the next year . |
| 15 | Timesense told her it had been barely fifteen seconds . |
| 16 | It had been barely two years since she had opened it with the money her father had left her . |
| 17 | Although the two canoeists who were ashore had been barely 200 yards inland they had gathered sufficient information to confirm that LACs could land on the beach at Houlgate . |
| 18 | He had been dead five weeks . |
| 19 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 20 | The boy naturalist Charles Darwin could have shown him a thing or two about that , but Hume had been dead 40 years when Darwin enrolled in Hume 's university of Edinburgh . |
| 21 | She had been here four days now , and , true to his word , Jonas had said nothing about Travis or the jade , which now stood in its rightful place in the display cabinet . |
| 22 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 23 | There had been nearly 28,000,000 crimes reported in 1990 , an increase of 13 per cent over 1989 . |
| 24 | The company believed in survival of the fittest and during 1988/9 turnover in salespersons was just under two years on average ; four years previously the turnover period had been nearly three years . |
| 25 | They had not entirely forgotten him back home , then , although he had been away 37 years . |
| 26 | The official inaugural meeting did not take place until October when the room had been open six months , and took the form of a Tea Soiree . |
| 27 | It had been almost three days since they had first met in hell , in the arena where the mysterious traveller had fought his deadly foe . |
| 28 | He had been almost three years in this post , the appointee of the new administration , and he knew he had done well , even though he had to succeed the incomparable Charles Price of the Reagan years . |
| 29 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 30 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |