Example sentences of "been a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT 'S been a great 10 days for Scots living in England . |
| 2 | In the USA , in national opinion polls conducted since Chernobyl , there has been a consistent two-to-one margin of opposition over support for new construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 3 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 4 | All these factors reduce the response rate , no matter how good the original sample may have been , so that what may have been a reasonable one-in-five sample to begin with ends up as nearer one-in-ten actually obtained , because of losses . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ It 's been a fabulous two years for me at Leeds and the lack of goals has been my only disappointment . |
| 6 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |
| 7 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 8 | Must ‘ ave been a good nine months back , not that long after you left for the front , come to think of it . ’ |
| 9 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 10 | It has been a hectic three years , operating a round-the-clock snack bar , and restaurant service for 17 hours every day . |
| 11 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been a wonderful 25 years for me . ’ |
| 13 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 14 | However , there have been an estimated 900 crimes against tourists in Dublin this year and the growing popularity of the city as an upmarket destination during its year as the European City of Culture has unfortunately attracted a hard core of criminals . |
| 15 | ‘ It has been an interesting three years , ’ he said with a delightful degree of understatement . |
| 16 | ‘ That said , it 's been an exciting five years for me and the club . |
| 17 | It has been an exhausting three days for the Labour Whips as they trawled the corridors of the Palace to try to find people who they could wheel in to speak in this debate . |