Example sentences of "years [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 2 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 3 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 4 | ‘ For two years I was crippled by repeated foot injuries , caused simply by the shoes I was wearing . |
| 5 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 6 | For those first two years I was able to enjoy behaving childishly — a pleasure which I felt had been denied to me — and being relatively free from responsibility . |
| 7 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 8 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
| 9 | It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 11 | I have a watertight cover for all those years I was with the Black June . |
| 12 | In fact , for fifteen years I was a village cricketer for Sheepscombe , deep into Cotswold country , beyond Stroud and Painswick . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 15 | For thirty years I was his friend . |
| 16 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 17 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 18 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 21 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 22 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 23 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 24 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 25 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 26 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 27 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 28 | ‘ For ten years I was a mason , carving ornaments for God 's holy churches — offering up the fruits of my labour to Him in Heaven who carved Man from Eden 's clay ! |
| 29 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 30 | During the seven years I was at McKinsey , I never saw a client that seemed to care so much about its people . ’ |