Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has been 14 years since we had an expedition book from him . |
| 6 | The appeal has been five years in the hearing . |
| 7 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 8 | The inter-church document tackling the issue of sectarianism has been five years in the making . |
| 9 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
| 10 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 11 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
| 12 | It has been three years since the galleries were last open , but according to Dr Mino , most of the material has been in the basement for half a century . |
| 13 | Since 1940 , the retirement age for women has been 60 years , five years earlier than for men . |
| 14 | 1992 has been another year in which we have had to work hard to live within our means . |
| 15 | 1992 has been another year of fruitful cooperation with TRANSAID . |
| 16 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 17 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 18 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 19 | To celebrate Britain 's rich heritage of mazes , 1991 has been designated Year of the Maze — a venture backed by the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society . |
| 20 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 21 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 22 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 23 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 24 | in nineteen thirty and ninety thirty one I won the cup , I 'd been twelve year old then . |
| 25 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 26 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 27 | It could have been four years . |
| 28 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 29 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |
| 30 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |