Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | it depended on what the particular er problem was at the time , if something failed after four or five years it was then covered by insurance by the N H B C or by guarantees |
3 | But apparently smut has never been far away , and in recent years when some crops have been grown from home saved seed which has had no treatment , after two or three years it has appeared with devastating effect . |
4 | Over a period of 10 or 15 years we will see our soil improving by using this technique . |
5 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
6 | We , we , it 's fairly clear that the manual gears is virtually , within five or six years it 's going to be very , very , very small . |
7 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |
8 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
9 | In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones . |
10 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
11 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |
12 | Yeah having worked in newspapers er for two or three years I n I now know that the er what you look , well I did n't look for cos I was on the business page , what people look for is a good story and it does n't |
13 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
14 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |