Example sentences of "i [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 31 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 32 | It was a satisfaction to me many years later , when I was a member of a Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry , established to advise how secrets should be dealt with , that I was able to persuade the chairman of the Commission , Lord Salmon , and through him the whole of the Commission , to recommend that there should never again be an inquiry of the Denning type , where a single individual was authorised to investigate any piece of gossip or scandal relating to any prominent public person . |
| 33 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 34 | This was brought home to me many years ago when I dived into the River Kennet with an aqualung . |
| 35 | It will take me bleeding years to reach my goal |
| 36 | It 's taken me 6 years . |
| 37 | Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on . |
| 38 | You could well give me ten years . ’ |
| 39 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 40 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 41 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 42 | Can you get me fifteen years for manslaughter ? ’ |
| 43 | It has taken me twelve years to be as sure as I am now , and it might take a few more to be absolutely sure . |
| 44 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 45 | I rather think that he still lives in and as Marg said coyly to me one year , he had given her a lovely little candle in a special little bowl with , with water |
| 46 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 47 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 48 | It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them . |
| 49 | It 's taken me twenty years to catch up . |
| 50 | So it has taken me 60 years to finish the book I began in 1933 . |
| 51 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 52 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 53 | But in that case , I would have the consolation of winning my bet , which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye . |
| 54 | ‘ It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can admit this , but I still want you , Jessamy . |
| 55 | It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can live without you , start to look forward to the future , and you 're not going to take that away from me . |
| 56 | What a pity you could n't have talked to me four years ago , instead of simply walking out . ’ |
| 57 | You wanted to marry me four years ago ? ’ |
| 58 | This has taken me four years and I reckon the Atlantic 's the one to go for.I 'm sure it 's not that difficult . |
| 59 | ’ My husband asked them why they did n't take a statement from me four years ago . |
| 60 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |