Example sentences of "be year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay at the top of there , eighty four and ninety four , they 're years believe it or not . |
| 2 | cos you 're Year Nine now , and I would have thought somewhere along the line that you 'd met this . |
| 3 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 4 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 5 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 6 | It had been years since he could supply pupils solely trained by him . |
| 7 | There had been years of smoking , drinking , sexual intercourse and dances , helped by there being a fire escape outside her bedroom and the fact her parents were always so exhausted they slept like mummies . |
| 8 | I pre-recorded it to a click track on Tuesday — very nervously , it 's been years since I sang — and will mime it with a live orchestra tonight . |
| 9 | But it had been years , even then , since Elvis was top of the Hit Parade , and if all he had to offer the world was slicked-back hair and a sulky pout , the Dead Loss was set to slip a lot further down the charts , and Mary was n't going to be there to see it . |
| 10 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 11 | As it had been years since I had been anywhere further away from Fontanellato than Parma , I had no hesitation in saying that I would like to go to Bologna . |
| 12 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 13 | He speculated that perhaps it had been years , and he had simply forgotten . |
| 14 | It had been years since she had cried like that , and that she should have done so now in front of Luke surprised her even more . |
| 15 | ‘ Now , it had been years since I had seen Bartholomew Burghgesh and I considered him long dead , yet I am sure that man I glimpsed that cold December morning was Sir Bartholomew himself . |
| 16 | If they are years old and rusty they are probably not much good . |
| 17 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 18 | THE Stock Exchange is considering a change to its Yellow Book rules to enable young biotechnology companies to be floated in London even if they are years away from making profits . |
| 19 | ‘ Usually charitable audits are years behind because there 's no time to do them , ’ he added . |
| 20 | Instead of fights outside the Market Bar they are outside MacDonald 's and the protagonists are years younger . |
| 21 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 22 | 'We are years ahead of the competition . ’ |
| 23 | It began to be a test — the test — of whether he could still live with himself once the months ( but probably it would be years ) of imprisonment were over . |
| 24 | ‘ It could be years before overall trends are established . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Patten has promised enough resources for the inspectorate to solve this problem but it may be years before it is strong enough to effectively enforce its new duties . |
| 26 | It may be years , if ever , before the symbols of the three largest organisations , the Soil Association , Organic Farmers & Growers or the Scottish Organic Producers ' Association , are superseded by an EC symbol . |
| 27 | He began to think it would be years before he escaped until the day he bumped into Wednesday , who was now Sunday , as he tip-toed back to Nettles . |
| 28 | It 'll be years before you 're in this position again , so do n't give it up until you 're absolutely certain you 've found the place you want . |
| 29 | The firm reckons it will be years before it finds the system 's limits . |
| 30 | We realised it was going to be years before it would be right . ’ |