Example sentences of "had been [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 2 | They had been married fourteen years and there were four strapping children . |
| 3 | The couple had been married nine years . |
| 4 | After losing his wife he had nearly gone to pieces ; yet they had been married six years . |
| 5 | She had been married 19 years ; they had no children together , but each had a son from a previous marriage . |
| 6 | No she was there in the beginning with a , , then she left and , she had been married three years . |
| 7 | Teachers had begun to realise there was a strong case for the teaching of knowledge about language in ways very different from those that had been fashionable thirty years earlier . |