Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was unemployed for two years and I have just got a nice job . |
| 2 | The Club proved very popular for many years as it appealed to the many actors , artists and musicians who found the atmosphere of Bedford Park most congenial . |
| 3 | She lay derelict for 10 years before she was restored for the Museum in 1988 . |
| 4 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 5 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 6 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 7 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 8 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 9 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 10 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 11 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 12 | In 1848 an experienced mines inspector and engineer could write in A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries : ‘ Explosions of gas have unfortunately become so numerous in late years that it would be impossible in the absence of specific records to enumerate them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We have managed to keep relations very harmonious for many years and we will not let anything disrupt that harmony , ’ he said . |
| 14 | But the sweet taste of success has gone sour over recent years as he slumped into the doldrums . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Pre-school children are less likely to be dry by 3 years if they are anxious or depressed . |
| 18 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 19 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |