Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years she [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
2 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |
3 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
4 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
5 | After suffering bulimia for 15 years she sought help because her children were beginning to comment on her abnormal eating habits . |
6 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
7 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
8 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |