Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] years [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 2 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 3 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 4 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 5 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 6 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 7 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 8 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 9 | AFTER some 19 years there has been a change of leadership on the North Norfolk Railway . |
| 10 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 11 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 12 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 13 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 14 | ‘ And four of those bloody years I spend in a bloody prison-camp — if you 'll pardon the expression . |
| 15 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 16 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 17 | Most of those ten years which had bound us together were spent out of doors . ’ |
| 18 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |
| 19 | Taking the period 1960–80 for the United States , he estimated that if during these twenty years no-one died ( a most extreme assumption ) before reaching the retirement age of 65 , then the labour force would be 4.8 per cent bigger than projected and the growth rate of national product would be 0.20 per cent higher per annum . |
| 20 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 21 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 22 | And for many many years nobody wrote those stories down at all . |
| 23 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 24 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 25 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 26 | During those twenty years I have told the story to only one other person . |
| 27 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 28 | Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well . |
| 29 | In these earlier years he eschewed biography as a path to understanding . |
| 30 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |