Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years and [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 | Florrie had been very friendly with Nellie for many years and she nodded sympathetically . |
| 6 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 11 | I 've worked in these homes for fifteen years and it was going on when I first started there . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I used to get down about my injuries , but I shared digs with Alan for two years and he always kept me going . |
| 14 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 18 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He 's worked on the site for 46 years and he knows what a heritage museum would mean to the town . |
| 21 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
| 22 | We lived in Sadberge for seven years and it 's lovely to come back . |
| 23 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 26 | Glenys and Neil Kinnock have been regular customers for several years and it was Glenys who had the honour of cutting the ribbon . |
| 27 | He 's on probation for three years and he has to do 100 hours community service . |
| 28 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 29 | I have worked in adult education for 12 years and I am proud , like the education spokesman for the Social and Liberal Democrats and , I think , the Leader of the Opposition , to be a vice-president of the Workers Educational Association . |
| 30 | I have known Trevor for many years and he is a mass of seething hate before breakfast most days , so I could smell the revenge in him even above ‘ Jock ’ McDougall 's armpits before we left the changing room this afternoon . |