Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] years [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 2 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 3 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 4 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 5 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 6 | Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 8 | Friends of Eleanor , 52 , said : ‘ Eleanor had known about Sandy 's friendship for two years but she decided enough was enough . ’ |
| 9 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 12 | I 've worked in these homes for fifteen years and it was going on when I first started there . |
| 13 | He had been married to Ellen for six years but they had no children . |
| 14 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 15 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I used to get down about my injuries , but I shared digs with Alan for two years and he always kept me going . |
| 17 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 18 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 19 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 20 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 21 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 22 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 23 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 24 | ‘ I agreed to do the job for five years but I feel that it is taking up too much of my time , ’ he declared . |
| 25 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
| 26 | He 's worked on the site for 46 years and he knows what a heritage museum would mean to the town . |
| 27 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
| 28 | We lived in Sadberge for seven years and it 's lovely to come back . |
| 29 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 30 | I WAS an infant teacher for 38 years and it always makes me angry when anyone says that a mother who stays at home caring for her child is ‘ wasting her talents ’ . |