Example sentences of "[verb] been a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 2 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 3 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 4 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |
| 5 | There may have been a few villages abandoned in the aftermath of the plague , particularly those on poorer soil , as their inhabitants moved to better lands to take up holdings which had fallen vacant . |
| 6 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 7 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 8 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 9 | up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you . |
| 10 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 11 | This hypothesis does not seem to have a lot going for it because , at the time Matthew — or whoever — was writing , there would still have been a few people around who could say something like I do n't remember any star ! ' ) |
| 12 | She had been a former child actress , making her film debut at the age of four , and at twelve she appeared in the London production of The Sound of Music . |
| 13 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 14 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 15 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 16 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 17 | Parish clerk Jennie Flintoff said there had been a few accidents at the entrance to the village . |
| 18 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 19 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 20 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 21 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 22 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 23 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 24 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 25 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 26 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 27 | There have been a few interventions . |
| 28 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 29 | We have not yet succeeded in creating reliable reproduction of touch , taste or smell , although there have been a few experiments . |
| 30 | Recently both monthly and weekly paid staff have switched to Videpay ( the new payroll system ) and like all new systems there have been a few teething problems . |