Example sentences of "years [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years my thoughts as well as my eyes have roved and as Jimmy Carter once said ‘ Ah have lusted in mah heart , ’ but as the car leaves the party and we 've waved our goodbyes to the other guests , it 's a rare night indeed that I have n't looked over and thought ‘ Thank God I 'm going home with him . ’ |
| 2 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 3 | For twenty years my life has been lived within the Left , and the companionship and creativity of many of the people I have met have changed me . |
| 4 | For seventeen years my life was very happy . |
| 5 | After two years my work was extended to include a number of musical shows , including piano recitals , with such international personalities as Egon Petri and the Australian baritone , Clement Q. Williams and his accompanist-wife , Enid Conley . |
| 6 | For the last couple of years my Sambucus racemosa ‘ Plumosa Aurea ’ has started well in spring , but soon the leaves brown and some even fall early . |
| 7 | Recollecting the years my parents had spent abroad , it was very possible they had not . |
| 8 | The ten years my parents spent in Abyssinia were undoubtedly the happiest of their lives . |
| 9 | Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’ |
| 10 | After a comparatively quiet two years my athletics career came alive again in 1984 , Olympic year . |
| 11 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 12 | Well there was all sorts , whatever was on the go , there was raspberry jam that my mo we used to later years my father grew raspberries and that sort of thing , blackcurrant jam , my mother made all sorts of things like that . |
| 13 | Over the years my health had always been good . |
| 14 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 15 | He always uses my first name , although he is several years my junior . |
| 16 | ‘ Actually , it was n't hard for me to play a man ten years my junior , because I was not only physically younger but I 've always been emotionally immature . ’ |
| 17 | Here I am , knocking 40 any year now and sharing my life with a woman who is seven years my junior . |
| 18 | Lorne , three years my junior , did n't even want to arrive . |
| 19 | The initial interview with an MD seven years my junior was largely comfortable and amicable apart from the minor irritant when he asked if I thought I could relate to young people in the office . |
| 20 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 21 | She resembles closely the ‘ buxom Welsh cousin named Florence , who was probably eight or nine years my senior ’ , so described in The Childhood , with whom he spent ‘ the most blissful hours ’ in country walks from his grandmother 's Swindon home to Shaw or Lydiard when he was ten or eleven . |
| 22 | She was a neat little blonde , five years my senior , and perpetually smelling of eau de cologne and cheap powder . |
| 23 | You see , Cissie Edelman was a ‘ big ’ girl — maybe seven years my senior , and I played with Joe , her little brother . |
| 24 | Er , well it was all mixed up , it was all mixed up , the funny thing is , er whilst he was many years my senior , er I joined the communist party before he did . |
| 25 | Several years my senior , I believe . |
| 26 | Madness yet again , as he , a penniless artist 17 years my senior , proposed on our second date and I said yes ! |
| 27 | I 'll tell you about Ryan Buck , fifteen years my senior , an ex-felon , an actor , my first , though my mouth was raw with the metallic taste of braces fresh on my teeth , and my features were like crooked , accidental things . |
| 28 | I dare say you 've noticed , miss , as he 's a good many years my senior ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Lucy , darling , you may be a married , pregnant lady five years my senior , but I honestly wonder which of us is the most gullible and naïve ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He 's only fifty-seven — two years my senior . |