Example sentences of "been [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 2 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |
| 3 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 4 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 5 | For he said — Hugh Beringar said — that Brother Cadfael understands wounds , having been many years a man-at-arms . ’ |
| 6 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 7 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 8 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 9 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 10 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 11 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |