Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [num] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 2 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 3 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |
| 4 | For the past two years I 've felt that there was something odd in some of the accounts . |
| 5 | However , for the past two years I 've dedicated myself to it in total and , like yours , my trade has mushroomed . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ For the past two years I 've made all the decisions , major and minor , though heaven knows why when I employ intelligent , capable , highly qualified managers . |
| 7 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 8 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 9 | For the past seven years I have run a job share register on behalf of the British Paediatric Association . |
| 10 | For the past seven years I 've skied in a selection of one-piece uninsulated shell suits and I doubt if I will ever turn back . |
| 11 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 12 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 13 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 14 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 15 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 16 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 18 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 19 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 20 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 21 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 23 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 24 | For the next ten years I lived in London . |
| 25 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 26 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 27 | During the past seven years I 've worn fabric and plastic boots so my feet needed some encouragement to weather leather again . |
| 28 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 29 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 30 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |