Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the debts sued for , all undefended , had been outstanding for three , four , five and six years , or even for a longer period . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's been free for three days now , and people are frightened . |
| 3 | Those who have been unemployed for three or more years are not asked about their previous employment , and are thereby excluded from the survey . |
| 4 | It has not been easy on three hours sleep a night . |
| 5 | Then , late one afternoon when Chola had been ill for three consecutive days , Kalchu asked the dhāmi once again to call the god to the shrine on the roof of his own house . |
| 6 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 7 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 8 | As you were aware , they had been involved in Three Hills in er developing Ayletts Field and successfully with us on our our most recent one . |
| 9 | She has been involved in three new workout videos entitled The Shape Series , which she presents . |
| 10 | After the Marchioness river boat sank in the Thames in 1989 it was revealed that the ship that crashed into it — the Bowbelle — had been involved in three previous river accidents . |
| 11 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 12 | Such phenomena may have been present in three of our patints , in whom a slight bile acid malabsorption was found with the SeHCAT test , but in whom there was no increase in bile acid synthesis by the liver . |
| 13 | SIR — The England cricket squad contesting the World Cup in Australia included players who would have been eligible for three other nations — West Indies , South Africa and Zimbabwe . |
| 14 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 15 | They have been vacant for three months . |
| 16 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 17 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 18 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 19 | ‘ You have been senseless for three days . |