Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] years when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | eventually , after about two years when you get this sort of armless , legless cor |
| 2 | There was a period of about twenty years when I had little to do with the club . |
| 3 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 4 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon had been a major force in English religious life for almost forty years when he died in 1892 . |
| 5 | Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 . |
| 6 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 7 | He beat Gedge by almost two years when he made his vinyl début with The Chorus , which included drummer Simon Smith who was later to join The Wedding Present , and John Parkes who roadies for the group . |