Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 2 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 3 | I think if anything can stop some of the things happening to youngsters that have been this year then it is a good thing . |
| 4 | If it feels like cotton , wears like polyester and holds color like cotton , it must be — Tencel , the new Courtaulds fibre that 's been 10 years and $200 million in the making … |
| 5 | Beattie was a senior foreman and had been twenty years with his company . |
| 6 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |