Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [det] year " in BNC.

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1 It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour .
2 It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season .
3 It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda .
4 He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England .
5 It 's been another year of achievement for the society the panto Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was a great success and gave a great start to the year .
6 Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively .
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