Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago .
2 I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire .
3 Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted .
4 ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’
5 ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’
6 ( A century earlier these figures would have been 11 years and 10 years . )
7 Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape .
8 The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed .
9 The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery .
10 Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago .
11 Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago .
12 His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier .
13 His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier .
14 But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet .
15 ‘ Our daughter would have been 29 years old when this person will be walking the streets again , ’ said 51-year-old Norman Squire at his home in Arundel , West Sussex .
16 ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas .
17 It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year .
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