Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary . |
| 2 | Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types . |
| 3 | A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 5 | Tony Ward , spokesman for the British Athletic Federation , said : ‘ Joan has been to two world and two European Championships and one Olympics . |
| 6 | Has been for six years . |
| 7 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
| 9 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 10 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 12 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 13 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 14 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 15 | The model recommended is in four parts . |
| 16 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 17 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 18 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 19 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 20 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 21 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 22 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 23 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 24 | The difference is that his compound is a nanocomposite — the crystals from which it is made are between two nanometres ( two millionths of a millimetre ) and ten nanometres across . |
| 25 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 26 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 27 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 28 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't like being up three flights of stairs at night without a candle . |
| 30 | Roy Hudd , the comic and broadcaster , recalls being with 2,000 campers in the South Seas Coffee-bar in one of the camps , coping with flooding . |