Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been dead four years . |
| 2 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 3 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 4 | The boy naturalist Charles Darwin could have shown him a thing or two about that , but Hume had been dead 40 years when Darwin enrolled in Hume 's university of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | But she had been only two years senior to Harriet . |
| 6 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 7 | Mr Reilly said : ‘ The engine was designed and engineered at our technical development centre in Russelsheim , Germany , and through close co-operation between engineers , designers and manufacturing experts , the total development period has been only four years . ’ |
| 8 | Even at the last conclave , in 1978 , this hypothetical cardinal could at most have been only 49 years old . |
| 9 | Luke Alderton had been only three years old when Bart dumped his mother for Grace and his first memories were of tears and endless shouting . |
| 10 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 11 | Beverages had advanced following a successful expansion of ice tea in southern Europe , while results from ice cream , in which Unilever leads the UK market with Walls , had been below last year 's exceptional levels for the quarter . |
| 12 | Beverages had advanced following a successful expansion of ice tea in southern Europe , while results from ice cream , in which Unilever leads the UK market with Walls , had been below last year 's exceptional levels for the quarter . |
| 13 | We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one . |
| 14 | We would have been together nineteen years this year . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My boyfriend 's called Michael and we 've been together seven years . |
| 16 | We have been open five years , and this was our best Christmas yet . |
| 17 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 18 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 19 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 20 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 21 | but he , he , I mean we 've not seen him he 's been away four years , I know he 's been coming home first , for holidays , visit , but he 's not been at home because , well we moved into that house , if you remember we moved |
| 22 | They had not entirely forgotten him back home , then , although he had been away 37 years . |
| 23 | The company believed in survival of the fittest and during 1988/9 turnover in salespersons was just under two years on average ; four years previously the turnover period had been nearly three years . |
| 24 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 25 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 26 | It was about a year before we moved to Brisbane , so they must only have been about eight years old . |
| 27 | I have written several further letters to the Independent and the Guardian without success , one letter criticising the Guardian 's AIDS information which has always been about two years out of date . |
| 28 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |
| 29 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 30 | Father was given the rod by friends at West Linton , near Edinburgh , and it must have been about fifty years old at least , when it came into my possession . |