Example sentences of "been [adv] six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been only six weeks at the helm . |
| 2 | The official inaugural meeting did not take place until October when the room had been open six months , and took the form of a Tea Soiree . |
| 3 | Now it er they said that this chap had g had gone to work after an illness and the boss said , Well er you 've been away six weeks , he said , There 's no job here for you now . |
| 4 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 5 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 6 | down there he said , Do n't come up again till out been out six month . |
| 7 | When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’ |
| 8 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 9 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 10 | I 've been there six months now . |