Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 2 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 3 | Fräulein had been two years already at The Towers . |
| 4 | Sister Casualty had been two years junior to Margaret in training . |
| 5 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |