Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's readings are taken from a book called A Cup of Water written by Janet Lacey who has devoted many years of her life to working for Christian Aid . |
| 2 | Thus ended an era of electric street transport in Croydon which had lasted sixty years . |
| 3 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 4 | She will meet Mrs Jones who has spent twenty years running a shelter for battered cats , and Mrs Jones is there . |
| 5 | Sometimes Ruth wished she had told Steve what had happened last year , the affair she had allowed to happen among the glitz and excitement of the Seville Expo , the fascinating Majorcan she had met and loved on sight . |
| 6 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 7 | Could n't she see that this was not the same Silas she 'd known three years ago ? |
| 8 | In addition to his studies in Cambridge and London he had spent three years at Edinburgh and one in the University of Glasgow . |