Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 2 | Andrew Warren , the director of the Association for Energy Conservation , commented that the document contained no new ideas and " could have been written several years ago " . |
| 3 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 4 | Of course , gardens have long been maintained in conjunction with historic houses ; what is new is the desire to rescue and restore gardens that may have been abandoned many years ago , as attractions in their own right . |
| 5 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 6 | Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers . |
| 7 | The hypothesis of the asylum founders , that cure could be achieved through placement in a segregated and controlled environment , had been nullified many years before . |
| 8 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 9 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 10 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 11 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 12 | Within was a colour photograph of Nicola that had been taken several years before : her face was chubbier and her hair , although still a remarkable blonde , was straight and parted down the middle . |
| 13 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 14 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 15 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 16 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |