Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ’ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ( A century earlier these figures would have been 11 years and 10 years . ) |
| 5 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 6 | The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed . |
| 7 | The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |