Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] seven years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 2 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 3 | It was n't that expensive , either , my childhood , because I spent seven years of it with my mum 's sister in the States . |
| 4 | At primary level , the drop-out rate rose to 30 per cent in the cohort which finished seven years of school in 1987 and then fell to 16.4 per cent for those finishing in 1989 . |
| 5 | Von Wilckens also discusses the famous tapestries of Paris and Flanders — among them the commission of Ludwig I for 600 square metres illustrating the Apocalypse , which took seven years to complete . |
| 6 | Visitors to Westminster Hall are amazed at Warren Hastings ' ability to survive a case which lasted seven years . |
| 7 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 8 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 9 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |
| 10 | Yes she did seven years . |
| 11 | I 'd like to say I 'm one of those people who waited seven years to have my daughter , who 's now eight by the way , but I mean erm I was one of those people when I heard about IV coming in I thought this was a great thing ! |
| 12 | One died seven years later of disseminated malignancy ; one after three years from alcoholism , another after one year from colonic carcinoma . |
| 13 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 14 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 15 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 16 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 17 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 18 | He spent seven years just sitting on his backside in the house . |
| 19 | Right now , Kendall is not back at the aristocratic Everton he knew seven years ago . |
| 20 | It took seven years to complete , but then that 's the secret behind the success story of this home where time and careful work have combined to create an elegant and colourful base for this busy family lifestyle . |
| 21 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |