Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] four years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 2 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 3 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 4 | For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him . |
| 5 | As the breadwinner in the family , he left school at fourteen , and for the next four years he was apprenticed as a sculptor and tomb-cutter to the firm of stonemasons , J. & G. Mossman . |
| 6 | For the next four years he was symptom free only while on elemental diet despite at least 12 week trials of prednisolone , azathioprine , and methotrexate . |
| 7 | During the next four years he travelled extensively in China , recording every facet of life at all levels of society , from paupers to princes . |
| 8 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 9 | During the next four years he wrote two substantial biographies which were highly acclaimed , those of his mentor Emrys ap Iwan , and Thomas Gee , the most influential publisher in Wales during the nineteenth century and a great friend and supporter of the young David Lloyd George ( later Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |
| 10 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 11 | And during the last four years you have n't seen him at all , while I 've spent nine or ten hours a day with him , sometimes even more if we 're particularly busy . |
| 12 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 13 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 14 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 15 | Over the last four years we have consistently moaned , we have passed resolutions at planning , asking committees to consider , and nothing has been done . |
| 16 | ‘ Over the last four years I 've had to learn to take each day — and night — as it comes . |
| 17 | As your Qualified Teachers ' representative over the last four years I have witnessed many new and exciting changes taking place within the Medau Society . |