Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted . |
| 2 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |
| 3 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 4 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 5 | if we 'd have started de it 'd have been another six months , no disrespect to Adrian but , you know , I , I just know the history of how it would have progressed . |
| 6 | In February 1973 , when I first decided to make the journey , there can have been few twenty-eight year olds who were less fit for the task . |
| 7 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |
| 8 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 9 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 10 | In the past three months , there have been some 150 arrests in Oxford for car theft . |
| 11 | There have been some 35 building society mergers over the past five years . |
| 12 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 13 | But since the 1950s , there have been several hundred articles and books , generally written by psychologists , but also from mathematicians , engineers , advertising men and so on . |