Example sentences of "four years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was our first se good school , as you may say then and then within about four years they built Tanys Dell and erm we just you know , we formed a quite a a a very good community here because we were all people from different areas we all had the same problems trying to re-adjust in a new place and I think then , we had more relationship with , with our neighbours than people are having today . |
| 2 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 3 | Every month for four years they met in Melbourne to stuff the magazines into envelopes for Australian subscribers . |
| 4 | For four years they had worked together in Rome . |
| 5 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 6 | There were hard fights over the next four years which I do not resent . |
| 7 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 8 | In this case it was a book , entitled ‘ Andrew and Fergie — the newly weds ’ , this was handed over to for her good attendance in the four years which she had gone to Little Stonham Primary School . |
| 9 | His objective was for AR production to be 25 per cent of Scottish Amicable new business in three to four years which means an effective doubling of AR production in that period . |
| 10 | I see from your application form that you 've sold space er for three or four years which |
| 11 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 12 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 13 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 14 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 15 | Four years we 've been apart , and you 've never once tried to get in touch with me . |
| 16 | Over the last four years we have consistently moaned , we have passed resolutions at planning , asking committees to consider , and nothing has been done . |
| 17 | I 've only been here four years we had the white one remember the gas one got certified dangerous ? |
| 18 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 19 | Because their tour of duty usually lasted no more than three or four years their primary loyalties were thought to be to their careers in the Home Office at large . |
| 20 | Her unusually youthful looks meant Kylie could play a girl four years her junior and her portrayal of the spirited 12-year-old Charlene helped make The Henderson Kids a hit in Australia . |
| 21 | Jeanne 's brother André , an academic landscape painter four years her senior , also became a convert whilst Jeanne 's mother , Eudoxie Hébuterne , tried to enter into the spirit of ardent Catholicism . |
| 22 | She became the elfin presence , the luck charm , the sweet pet of the forest : and when she was sixteen , she met William , four years her senior , a carpenter just out of his apprenticeship in Lorton — the next village on from Buttermere — who came every week to make the first selection of wood from her father 's stock . |
| 23 | Mary had a sister , four years her junior — bright , stylish Moira Phelan . |
| 24 | For the next four years her relatives reportedly tried to find a country that would receive her body for burial , but were turned away until they reached Peru . |
| 25 | Er but when they changed the room round I moved to the because and I became a director of the for a while fo three f four years something like that . |
| 26 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 27 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 28 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
| 29 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 30 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |