Example sentences of "i [verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 2 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 3 | in nineteen thirty and ninety thirty one I won the cup , I 'd been twelve year old then . |
| 4 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 5 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been thirty years in the business and this is the one place I have been where there are not petty jealousies or anything like that . |
| 7 | And erm that 's quite special for me , it 's erm my homeland , where I 've come from , but I 've been twelve years in this vicinity around here , so there is erm if you like , a divided loyalty with the four kids . |
| 8 | Within the last ten years , I 've been ten years activ actively concerned with the old aged pensioners ' association and er the Labour movement . |
| 9 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 10 | I have been twenty-nine years in camps now . ’ |