Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 2 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
| 3 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 4 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 5 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 6 | She watched the other people , and wondered how many years of observation it would take her to learn to distinguish the tarts from the students , for there were clearly some of each within her range . |
| 7 | If you have children under five years of age you can not get free milk but the rates of Family credit are increased because of this . |
| 8 | If we had five hundred years on earth we could say , ‘ OK , I 'll spend the first hundred years doing nothing in particular , the next hundred learning about life , the next hundred building a relationship , the next hundred working and my last hundred in leisure . ’ |
| 9 | For the first two years in government we will concentrate resources on the essential tasks of combating unemployment and poverty … |
| 10 | After four years of service they could return home for a holiday with the family or bring out their wives and children , providing they had found accommodation for them . |
| 11 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |