Example sentences of "have been [adj] [num] year " 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 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 4 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 5 | But for this problem , the encouraging increase in student numbers in 1957- 58 — which was maintained in subsequent years and so marked the beginning of an upward trend — would probably have been apparent one year earlier . |
| 6 | Norman Rockwell would have been one hundred years old next year . |
| 7 | It is now regularly available at their surgery as part of free NHS care , a situation which would have been inconceivable ten years ago . |
| 8 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 11 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | In February 1973 , when I first decided to make the journey , there can have been few twenty-eight year olds who were less fit for the task . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They had been married fourteen years and there were four strapping children . |
| 17 | The couple had been married nine years . |
| 18 | After losing his wife he had nearly gone to pieces ; yet they had been married six years . |
| 19 | She had been married 19 years ; they had no children together , but each had a son from a previous marriage . |
| 20 | No she was there in the beginning with a , , then she left and , she had been married three years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been ready three years , Victor . ’ |
| 25 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 26 | Of those who have been married thirty years or more , only 4.3 per cent divorce . |
| 27 | George and Helen have been married forty-five years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 , |