Example sentences of "been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 2 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 3 | To celebrate Britain 's rich heritage of mazes , 1991 has been designated Year of the Maze — a venture backed by the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society . |
| 4 | Does not that answer prove that the past 13 years have been wasted years in terms of the Government 's commitment to the footwear industry ? |
| 5 | And they had been good years . |
| 6 | And the past few years have been good years of course |
| 7 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 8 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 9 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 10 | In fact , of course , they offer no such thing : there have been lean years there , and even lean patches last winter . |
| 11 | THE '80s have been traumatic years . |
| 12 | Previously , March 25 had been New Year 's Day with attendant ceremonies leading to a climax on April 1 . |
| 13 | Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century . |
| 14 | They 've always been other years so I presume that |
| 15 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 16 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been dead years , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Gin er was that er Alderman , the old gentleman , the older alderman , you know he 's been dead years now from , and erm they were very good . |
| 19 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 20 | The 1980s have been bad years for lone mothers , as for so many others . |