Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] years and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've worked in these homes for fifteen years and it was going on when I first started there . |
| 2 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 3 | Glenys and Neil Kinnock have been regular customers for several years and it was Glenys who had the honour of cutting the ribbon . |
| 4 | THE Law and its administration have seen changes in recent years and there are more to come . |
| 5 | Perhaps those advising Mr Lamont consider the objective has been achieved by the high drilling success rates in recent years and there are enough oil and gas finds to sustain development work for the immediate future . |
| 6 | They have n't been champions for 26 years and it could be another 26 before they win it again . |
| 7 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 8 | And Darren from Stoke on Trent was in the forces for three years and he did n't see any bullying at all . |
| 9 | Another northern head , requesting anonymity , voiced his outrage at Labour 's prejudice : ‘ I 've worked in comprehensives for 18 years and I know as well as anyone that you can not get good education for working-class children without quality teachers and adequate resources . |
| 10 | ‘ We are the first England representative team to face the Springboks in 23 years and we must make it a memorable day , one the selectors can not ignore . ’ |
| 11 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 12 | Indeed , hundreds have successfully completed modules over recent years and it is evident that the National Certificate 's flexibility is as viable in prisons as in any other centre . |
| 13 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 14 | We have published reviews of a fair number of headphones in recent years and there is ample evidence that this uniquely personal and involving method of listening to music remains very popular . |
| 15 | Timothy Langdale , QC , counsel for Guppy , said he had had high expenses in recent years and it should not be assumed ‘ that there is some pot of gold stuck in some foreign country ’ . |