Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 2 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 3 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 4 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 5 | ‘ No new water supplies have been developed in 20 years . ’ |
| 6 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 7 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 8 | Where the right has been enjoyed for 40 years , it is to be considered ’ absolute and indefeasible ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 10 | The 12 cider apple trees in the orchard at Lower House Farm , Yarpole near Leominster have n't been picked for 5 years . |
| 11 | However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years . |
| 12 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 13 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 15 | The two areas have been twinned for 35 years . |
| 16 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 17 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |
| 18 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 19 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 20 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 21 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 22 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 23 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 24 | The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years . |
| 25 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 26 | Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah . |
| 27 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 28 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 29 | Although up to eight have been seen in one year , Bitterns are not annual in Sussex . |
| 30 | A TEENAGER who plunged a screwdriver into a frail 85-year-old woman as accomplices ransacked her home , has been sentenced to eight years ’ detention . |