Example sentences of "year [ex0] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over recent years there have been on average over 100 children per year injured in accidents whilst on journeys to or from school ( see Table 28 ) . |
| 2 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 3 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 4 | In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ . |
| 5 | In the past year there have been at least eight deaths in custody which are believed to have resulted from torture . |