Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 2 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 3 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 4 | if Central South had been running twenty five years ago our sport would have been dominated by the name of one man … jockey Terry Biddlecombe one of Gloucestershire 's most famous and favourite of sporting sons … |
| 5 | I 've often wish 'd , for the honour of our Sex , that these Subjects had been exhausted seventeen hundred years ago ; but am afraid that seventeen hundred years hence , we shall have the same false Corydon 's , and the same complaining Sylvia 's . |
| 6 | The highly specialised craft of lacquer painting and decoration seems to have been invented several thousand years ago in China , where the lacquer tree grows . |
| 7 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 8 | Having been started some ten years earlier , they were substantially complete by the early 1680s . |