Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 3 | There were furious debates in respect of schemes for Oxford and Bath , but the biggest single reversal of policy concerned London , where for many years three ringways had been in mind . |
| 4 | Against the Alan , as many as twenty tumans had been in operation , their movement co-ordinated with incredible accuracy . |
| 5 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 6 | By April 1986 , 186,711 men had been without work for more than five years , a sum nearly five times greater than the same group four decades earlier . |
| 7 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |