Example sentences of "i [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 2 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 3 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 4 | I had a go at that did n't I one year ? |
| 5 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 8 | Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ? |
| 9 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 10 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 11 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 12 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 13 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 14 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 15 | It 's taken me 6 years . |
| 16 | You could well give me ten years . ’ |
| 17 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 18 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 19 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 20 | Can you get me fifteen years for manslaughter ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 25 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 26 | It 's taken me twenty years to catch up . |
| 27 | So it has taken me 60 years to finish the book I began in 1933 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But in that case , I would have the consolation of winning my bet , which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye . |