Example sentences of "us [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She is a grown woman now , she has changed a great deal since she last came to stay with us eight years ago , ’ said Mrs Riddiford after meeting Kylie in her hotel after the concert . |
| 2 | OK so Wilko won the league for us 2 years ago but has he got still got hold of his faculties ? |
| 3 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 4 | I 'm also grateful that you did n't … you did n't take advantage of what was between us six years ago . |
| 5 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |
| 6 | ‘ Because my father walked out on us ten years ago when the twins were only six . |
| 7 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's taken us five years to get this far and by now we know when we 've had enough of each other and when to get out of the van and go and sit somewhere quiet to cool off , ’ says Craig . |
| 9 | Habituating a community of chimpanzees — gaining their acceptance as we followed their daily movements through the forest , and learning to recognise the animals as individuals — took us five years . |
| 10 | His active part in trying to uplift the Harijan community ( and himself ) by inviting us 15 years ago to rebuild the village , is in stark contrast to other Brahmins who still stay safely hidden in the bamboo groves with their purity intact . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're in the WH Smith Top 40 and it has only taken us four years to get there , ’ says Tom White of makers Upstarts . |
| 12 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 13 | I see the form tutor one as being now we 've got hold of record of achievement as being part of the developmental process of a record of achievement , now our youngsters know what a personal statement is , form tutors are happier with a joint statement it 's taken us four years |