Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was unemployed for two years and I have just got a nice job . |
| 2 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 3 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 4 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 5 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 6 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 7 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 8 | ‘ We have managed to keep relations very harmonious for many years and we will not let anything disrupt that harmony , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 10 | The debate over what has become known as ‘ blindsight ’ has become very heated in recent years and it is difficult to see which side is correct . |
| 11 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |