Example sentences of "[prep] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 32 | Stephen of Blois , the son of William I youngest daughter , was favoured by the Barons and was crowned King of England by the end of 1133 , but for a number of years he was imprisoned by the Barons during civil war . |
| 33 | For a couple of years he worked in London with MI6 , mainly bugging diplomatic premises and illegally opening diplomatic mail . |
| 34 | I wish him luck and hope that after a couple of years he is transferred back ! |
| 35 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 36 | For the past couple of years he has also appeared in pantomime with Rolf Harris . |
| 37 | Erm , leaving it too long , and now he 's as I say , last couple of years he 's been to se to see why it is he 's getting headaches and they say there 's no sight in that eye at all . |
| 38 | ‘ It is something I have had to come to terms with because in the past couple of years I have had to fly hundreds of times . |
| 39 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 40 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 41 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 42 | over a number of years I was subjected to domestic violence , erm , the last time I left I did n't report it right away , morally it was my son , I did n't want to drag him through the court , but when I did I was told no , your too late , you will just be seen as a woman scorned , your trying to get revenge , and that 's it , no , I 'm not taking a statement . |
| 43 | The logic of the inhibitor approach is obvious , but for a number of years I was reluctant to get involved in doing such experiments , as it was n't clear to me that using broad spectrum inhibitors such as those for protein synthesis would tell me anything precise about the biochemical processes I was trying to unpick . |
| 44 | For the first couple of years I shared a flat with a friend , then my paternal grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy . |
| 45 | ‘ In a couple of years I 'll have an even better horse than Grye . ’ |
| 46 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 47 | but normally I ca n't sleep here I al I always admired anybody that could sleep with a for yea it 's only this last couple of years I can do it , no I mean I 'll doze . |
| 48 | I was happy as pop singer , the last couple of years I was n't happy when I ceased to be a pop singer and I was er headed on a road of being an entertainer . |
| 49 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |
| 50 | Eventually , but it might have been in a couple of years I thought . |
| 51 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 52 | The amount you receive depends on two factors : the number of years you have worked for the organisation plus the fraction of final pay on which the scheme is based , typically 1/60th . |
| 53 | However , if , as applies to many women , despite having worked for a good number of years you have made insufficient contributions to qualify for a full pension , you should contact your local Social Security office , quoting your pension number and national insurance number . |
| 54 | you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be . |
| 55 | And she 'd I think she had about eight , over over a period of years you know . |
| 56 | I mean if you 're doing me medicine , for the first couple of years you you 're just doing text book work are n't you , mostly ? |
| 57 | no , a couple of years you 're quite right . |
| 58 | all of a sudden in the next couple of years you 've got to go through thousands of years of evolution . |
| 59 | If prices remained high for a number of years it would become economic to develop marginal deposits in other parts of the world , such as Indonesia , New Guinea , New Caledonia , Peru and the US . |
| 60 | For hundreds of years it has all been exactly the same . |