Example sentences of "[noun] have been [vb pp] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 2 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 3 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 4 | The need for a wider focus had been signalled five years earlier when the merger of the Howard Association and the prison Reform League resulted in the establishment of the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 5 | the possession of the motor car was just becoming the norm , but the town had been designed fifteen years earlier |
| 6 | And as the Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , told a conference on teacher education in 1976 , ‘ if a meeting on teacher education had been held four years ago , the Council would not have been invited to attend ’ . |
| 7 | The flats had been built ten years earlier and showed wear badly . |
| 8 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 9 | The opera has been finished two years ahead of schedule , but for productions of this scale that time is needed just for design and casting . |
| 10 | A LONELY bachelor who died in his bath has been found four years later . |
| 11 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 12 | Joshua Marshall had been the parking-bay attendant ever since the apartment block had been opened eighteen years earlier . |
| 13 | A 24 year old woman had been diagnosed five years previously and had persistent abdominal pain , diarrhoea , and ill health despite repeated courses of steroids . |
| 14 | A package of unpublished music manuscripts by one of the country 's most eminent composers of brass band music has been rediscovered fifty years after it was written … and as Clare Lafferty reports , its about to have its first performance . |
| 15 | Dickinson , however , was the older , distinctly British roots this provided : the firm had been founded six years earlier by a group of ex-Spencer Stuart consultants . |
| 16 | Gerald Crawford , spokesman for the FCC , rejected the criticism , saying procedures had been changed three years ago to make sure confiscated nets were not passed back to poachers . |
| 17 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 18 | If B. Hunslett had been born 50 years ago , he would have been an ideal candidate for the Hitler Youth Movement . |
| 19 | My ma and da have been divorced ten years . |
| 20 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 21 | There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before . |
| 22 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 23 | To date this operation seems to be free of cancer risk although one case of cancer has been reported seven years after operation . |
| 24 | The Methodist Sabbath School had been founded ten years before , and just one year after that date the ‘ collections were liberal ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 26 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |