Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Party has been victorious three times running increasing its majority each time . |
| 2 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 4 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 5 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 6 | But for this problem , the encouraging increase in student numbers in 1957- 58 — which was maintained in subsequent years and so marked the beginning of an upward trend — would probably have been apparent one year earlier . |
| 7 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 8 | It is now regularly available at their surgery as part of free NHS care , a situation which would have been inconceivable ten years ago . |
| 9 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 10 | Studies like those described by Dean ( 1982 ) , in which he attempted to distinguish between deficits in visual memory and visual object categorization following damage to part of the visual association cortex in rhesus monkeys , would have been unthinkable forty years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 12 | ‘ Unix Lite would have been okay four years ago , but with the performance and memory capacity of today 's machines — and their future potential — we do n't need cut-down Unix . |
| 13 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 14 | However , the patterns of species diversity do not coincide with those of endemism and one of the present ‘ refugia ’ seems to have been underwater 5000 BP and its endemism must have arisen subsequently . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 16 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 17 | They had been married fourteen years and there were four strapping children . |
| 18 | The last one on the roll said 12.18 and we had been married eight minutes . |
| 19 | The couple had been married nine years . |
| 20 | After losing his wife he had nearly gone to pieces ; yet they had been married six years . |
| 21 | She had been married 19 years ; they had no children together , but each had a son from a previous marriage . |
| 22 | The first photo on the roll said 12.13 , and we had been married three minutes . |
| 23 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 24 | No she was there in the beginning with a , , then she left and , she had been married three years . |
| 25 | He was diving with his wife Deborah they had been married 15 days off the resort town of Byron Bay , 400 miles north of Sydney . |
| 26 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 27 | Sam came back frowning and , stretching inside without stepping into the water , pressed the three switches that had been unresponsive two days earlier . |
| 28 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 29 | Teachers had begun to realise there was a strong case for the teaching of knowledge about language in ways very different from those that had been fashionable thirty years earlier . |
| 30 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |