Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 2 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 3 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 4 | The quarry has been here 200 years and is part of the landscape , rather than a blot on it . ’ |
| 5 | He has been here eight years . |
| 6 | Raskolnikov has been here three years . |
| 7 | Mr Reilly said : ‘ The engine was designed and engineered at our technical development centre in Russelsheim , Germany , and through close co-operation between engineers , designers and manufacturing experts , the total development period has been only four years . ’ |
| 8 | They went to : Doreen Bethwaite of High Road , Kells , who works in the preparation department and has been there 45 years . |
| 9 | Prices in some areas have dropped by between 10 and 20 per cent this year and the number of sales has been half last year 's . |
| 10 | He was really annoyed , he 'd been there twelve years |
| 11 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 12 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 13 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 14 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 15 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 16 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 17 | We would have been together nineteen years this year . ’ |
| 18 | Even at the last conclave , in 1978 , this hypothetical cardinal could at most have been only 49 years old . |
| 19 | It must have been about four years ago we 'd come . |
| 20 | It was about a year before we moved to Brisbane , so they must only have been about eight years old . |
| 21 | Father was given the rod by friends at West Linton , near Edinburgh , and it must have been about fifty years old at least , when it came into my possession . |
| 22 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 23 | While visiting Wilton Abbey to see his prospective bride , Count Alan saw another lady who must have been about thirty years of age . |
| 24 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |
| 25 | Whilst we were still looking at the blaze , Marjorie Truckle ( Ernie 's sister ) , who would have been about thirteen years of age , came rushing across the field with a message from their mother — |
| 26 | ‘ My father tied with another man at an Old Newton furrow-drawing match : both had a quarter-inch deviation — it must have been about sixty years ago . |
| 27 | No she still buys smooth erm I remember I must have been about three years old , it was when we were still up North and mummy was dashing out , it was breakfast time and she go easy on the peanut butter , there 's hardly any left . |
| 28 | Ealhfrith must have been about 20 years old at the time of the battle of the Winwaed , after which he became king of Deira , taking over the former territory of his cousin , Oethelwald . |
| 29 | It 's just a little shop , she 's been there years , she must have been there thirty years at least . |
| 30 | The money should have been there four-and-a-half years ago when we needed it most . |