Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so I did the two year C C Q S W course . |
| 2 | in prison for , well you got a three year sentence |
| 3 | Well we did a few years ago . |
| 4 | Because companies pay taxes according to how well they did the previous year , the deficit tends to be deepest just as we come out of recession . |
| 5 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 6 | ‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son . |
| 7 | Then you do the three years |
| 8 | But then they tumbled the following year , crashing by 31 per cent when measured against the price of manufactured goods . |
| 9 | Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a . |
| 10 | Yes , the reason why we picked a forty year lifespan of work or working life er with four tens was because Professor Good himself told us that er on their research the common employment pattern today is in fact four employers over the working life and of course that is very different from the experience of many pensioners who are drawing today from their pension funds , because many of them were long-term , long-service employees throughout their lives with one employer . |
| 11 | The seventy one year old judge caused uproar in June when he said an eight year old victim of a sex attack was not entirely an angel herself . |
| 12 | Cheyney passed from Sandhurst into the army , buying a commission in a regiment which was ordered to India , where he spent a few years in inactive service . |
| 13 | The display is now set to tour Scotland for the remainder of the centenary year , taking in several locations which have strong MacDiarmid associations — Langholm , where he was born ; Montrose where his masterpiece A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle was composed ; and Lanark , close to Brownsbank where he spent the later years of his life . |