Example sentences of "[noun] have been [vb pp] some years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 2 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 3 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 4 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 5 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |