Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] years and 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 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’
3 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 :
4 However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees .
5 I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) .
6 That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that .
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