Example sentences of "it [verb] been [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
| 2 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 3 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 4 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
| 5 | It has been 14 years since we had an expedition book from him . |
| 6 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 7 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 8 | It has been three years since the galleries were last open , but according to Dr Mino , most of the material has been in the basement for half a century . |
| 9 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 10 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
| 11 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 12 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |
| 13 | It had been four years since Jessamy had seen her , and she did n't seem to have changed at all . |
| 14 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 15 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 16 | It had been eight years since the council published its accounts on time . |
| 17 | It had been three years since Katherine Lundy had shot the man she had once loved . |
| 18 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 19 | It had been three years for Ace . |
| 20 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 21 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 22 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 23 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 24 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 25 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
| 26 | It 's been 10 years now since I left the farm , and I 'm happy that I 've ‘ escaped ’ to London . |
| 27 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 28 | Then someone turns around and says , ‘ It 's been five years since your last tour , ’ and you say , ‘ What ? ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 30 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |