Example sentences of "may [verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 2 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |
| 3 | The lecturer may have been 20 years older , wealthier , and inevitably wiser , but that is often why the student chose to sleep with him . |
| 4 | Whatever justification there may have been 600 years ago for riot and revolt , there was never such justification today . |
| 5 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |