Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last nine years he has lived outside work time as a brunette , Diane , and has helped counsel others . |
| 2 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 3 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 4 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 5 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 6 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 7 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 8 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 9 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 10 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 11 | He had formed her life , as for the last twelve years she had lived it , formed her every day by the acts of one extraordinary night . |
| 12 | For the last twelve years it 's been a Conservative seat . |
| 13 | Actually I did operations between the village hall and the Crosskeys and Mr Martin is on the pub for the last sixteen years you see . |
| 14 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 15 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 16 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 17 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 18 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 19 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 20 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
| 21 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 22 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 23 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 24 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 25 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 26 | ‘ For the last few years we have been seriously handicapped by the fact that our second team have been unable to compete regularly against quality opposition . |
| 27 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 28 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 29 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 30 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |