Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 2 | He decided to brew a long-lasting , high quality version of this porter and within ten years he was exporting his ‘ Guinness Extra Strong Porter ’ to London . |
| 3 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 4 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 5 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 6 | Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller . |
| 7 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 8 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 9 | Others are moving into the frame and within five years it is possible that more than half of all lamb will be sold overseas . |
| 10 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 11 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 12 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 13 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 14 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |