Example sentences of "[been] [noun] [prep] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 2 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 3 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 4 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 5 | There had been nights like this years ago , when they were younger , before there was a house and a television set , before they were married . |