Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , when they were in Canada , in the fifth month of the picture , Dustin got friendly with an Oriental man who claimed to be 104 years old . |
| 2 | Later , drive to the Buddhist Swayambhunath Stupa , said to be 2,000 years old . |
| 3 | La Rive restaurant has been doubled in size and is served by an award winning kitchen , designed by British consultant Ken Winch , and said to be seven years ahead of anything else in Holland . |
| 4 | They had to be twenty-five years old , to have received at least secondary education , and to be substantial property-owners . |
| 5 | It just had to be this year , when Anthony was champion , that they did n't . |