Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adj] [adj] years " 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 | However , the British people must be asking where it has been all these years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's been seven long years since they ran the riot act , but there remains a threatening air of petulance and possibility about their onstage demeanour that throws a star-spangled spanner into the works . |
| 5 | 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 , |
| 6 | It 's been twenty three years since I |