Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tony Ward , spokesman for the British Athletic Federation , said : ‘ Joan has been to two world and two European Championships and one Olympics . |
| 4 | Has been for six years . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 10 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 11 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 12 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 16 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 19 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 20 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 21 | The contents , the observer thought , could not have been worth five dollars . |
| 22 | In 1979 Mrs. Nancy O'Donnell also retired , having been for 23 years an indispensable part of School life — catering for numbers large or small , brewing tea and coffee , selling biscuits outside Room 18 , applying plasters to wounded knees or offering sympathy to wounded spirits . |
| 23 | T.4 WJ866 , having been with 231 OCU until transfer to the Navy in 1969 , was borrowed from FRADU at Yeovilton in the mid-1980s to ease the shortage of T.4s . |
| 24 | On Dec. 21 , 1989 , exactly a year after the Lockerbie bombing [ see pp. 26409-10 ] , a Palestinian identified as a suspect in the crime was given a life sentence by a court in Uppsala , Sweden , having been with three others with terrorist offences in Sweden , Denmark and the Netherlands in 1985-86 [ see p. 37137 ] . |
| 25 | The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably . |
| 26 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 27 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 28 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 29 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |
| 30 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |