Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 2 | It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations . |
| 3 | ‘ Terry had been on tea for four years before he first began using horse . ’ |
| 4 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 6 | Friends of Eleanor , 52 , said : ‘ Eleanor had known about Sandy 's friendship for two years but she decided enough was enough . ’ |
| 7 | A DJ for nine years since he was sixteen , Djaimin was born of an Italian father and English mum — but we still had to use Mike as an interpreter . |
| 8 | Fulham will pay a low introductory rent for three years while they seek a partial redevelopment of the stadium . |
| 9 | If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it |
| 10 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 11 | I was in , I was in the industry for thirty years before I realized or find out that it 's an Arabian craft . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 14 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 15 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 16 | You could have had a gap of many years since you worked . |
| 17 | Dr Paul Altmann of the Kidney Unit at the London Hospital in Whitechapel is reported as saying : ‘ It is when you are absorbing aluminium over many years that it is potentially damaging . |
| 18 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 19 | Half of that is due to programme reorientation because of the extension of the programme by two years as I understand it , can you spell out what those costs are and are we having to pay more because Germany wants to slow the programme down ? |
| 20 | The cost is going to be some three thousand four hundred million I think to er to the U K. That 's er gone up by about thirteen percent , four hundred million roughly , er over the original estimates , half of that is due to programme re-orientation because of the extension of the programme by two years as I understand it . |
| 21 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 22 | Ipswich v Sunderland Ipswich will put together their best run for five years if they avoid defeat against Sunderland . |
| 23 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 24 | Formerly Associate Technical Director , he was with the Institute for 33 years until he retired four years ago |
| 25 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 26 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 27 | So much has been written concerning this question in recent years that it would waste space to reiterate arguments as to the moral , sociological , psychological and medical aspects of the problem . |
| 28 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 29 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 30 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |