Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] years [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 2 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 3 | But we shall see in 200 years if I am right . ’ |
| 4 | I 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’ |
| 5 | It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug ‘ Tubby ’ Radcliffe at the Tech ( now UMIST ) . |
| 6 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 7 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 8 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 9 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 10 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 11 | That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that . |