Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [det] year [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers .
2 Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team .
3 An initial A$2.5 million has been provided this year but it should be increased to A$5 million a year within three years .
4 In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent .
5 Resources for employment training have been cut this year and for youth training are roughly the same , even though the need is so much greater .
6 It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above .
7 And the Sheikh 's dominance has been maintained this year as he heads the table with some £1.75m in prize money , half a million ahead of his older brother , Hamdan Al Maktoum , who owns Nashwan , with Sangster languishing in 10th place with a mere £250,000 or so in the kitty .
8 More than 7,000 rail jobs have been lost this year and 20,000 are under threat , according to the union , which last organised a series of one-day strikes , over pay , in 1989 .
9 I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all .
10 ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’
11 Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round .
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