Example sentences of "[vb base] been [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We opened our Amsterdam , our new exhibition in Amsterdam in June and er , up to now audiences have flocked there many weeks they 've been thirty percent ahead of er ahead of budget . |
| 2 | I 've been thirty years in the business and this is the one place I have been where there are not petty jealousies or anything like that . |
| 3 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 4 | There 've been sixteen escapes in the last two years and staff blame underfunding by the Home Office . |
| 5 | Cos other years we 've been two days behind with orders you know and |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been one side of the camera for long enough , ’ he smiles . |
| 7 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 8 | There 've been five home secretaries in four years and civil servants are unclear which direction ministers will take next . |
| 9 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 10 | We 've done it , we 've been four years , you know |
| 11 | And erm that 's quite special for me , it 's erm my homeland , where I 've come from , but I 've been twelve years in this vicinity around here , so there is erm if you like , a divided loyalty with the four kids . |
| 12 | ‘ Modigliani ’ , someone said , ‘ you 've been three years fiddling about with one type of head and you 'll be another three on the new design . ’ |
| 13 | Within the last ten years , I 've been ten years activ actively concerned with the old aged pensioners ' association and er the Labour movement . |
| 14 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 15 | For some people their whole working lives so far have been one scheme to the next , never getting any really worthwhile training and never being paid a decent wage . |
| 16 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 17 | To date there have been eight experiments , all but one of which used photons rather than protons . |
| 18 | ’ Up near Alexandra township , bordering on a swish white suburb , there have been seventeen hijackings recently . |
| 19 | ‘ To date this year there have been 172 bomb incidents , 54 fewer than in the same period last year . |
| 20 | Since then there have been 14 records comprising a total of c. 85 birds in six winters . |
| 21 | Between 1961 and 1976 there have been 14 records : in January ( two ) , March ( four ) , April ( two ) , May ( one ) , August ( three ) , September ( one ) , and November ( one ) . |
| 22 | Although recently extreme dates have been 14 August ( 1970 , Rye ) , and 1 May ( 1968 , Cuckmere ) , this species is most abundant from October to January . |
| 23 | There have been sixteen drug regulatory actions worldwide against triazolam since 1980 aimed at the manufacturer 's recommended doses . |
| 24 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 25 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 26 | The House will be interested to know that , in the six months since my hon. Friend last questioned me on the subject , there have been 992 call-outs from RAF Chivenor and 591 people have been assisted . |
| 27 | Since the formation of the system there have been eleven exchange rate realignments , the last one implemented in January 1987 ; ( b ) inducing a reduction of , and an increasing degree of convergence among members countries ' inflation rates ; ( c ) generating , as a result of ( a ) and ( b ) , a greater degree of real exchange rate predictability ; ( d ) encouraging lower and more convergent national money supply growth rates ; ( e ) reducing the variability of national inflation , money supply growth and interest rates . |
| 28 | There have been 47 cases of the cable chafing on the power steering pump pulley on the right-hand drive vehicles manufactured from May 1992 up to chassis number p818990 , but no reported accidents , the company said . |
| 29 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 30 | There have been five proposals for the er chairman chairman 's position and nil proposals for the . |