Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] years [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ? |
| 2 | After about 30 years they would support ling and heather , then gorse would become established . |
| 3 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 4 | I hope you know how many years you 'll get for this said P C Garfield , of course I do I 'm not stupid . |
| 5 | At least ten years I 'd say . |
| 6 | Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling . |
| 7 | From this point of view , the only good American is one who stays shamefacedly mute about his English cousins , however many years he may have lived among them . |
| 8 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 9 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |