Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 2 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 3 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 4 | Rose was also a skilful card player , and for several years she was world champion at poker . |
| 5 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 6 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 7 | Others are moving into the frame and within five years it is possible that more than half of all lamb will be sold overseas . |
| 8 | The fragile democratic institutions of Weimar were not able to survive the sense of defeat , the recession and Hitler 's onslaught , and within fifteen years he was elected Chancellor . |
| 9 | She learned to stand up from sitting in a chair , and within two years she was able to walk short distances , even outside , with very little help . |
| 10 | Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller . |
| 11 | It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’ |
| 12 | He decided to brew a long-lasting , high quality version of this porter and within ten years he was exporting his ‘ Guinness Extra Strong Porter ’ to London . |
| 13 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 14 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 15 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 16 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 17 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 18 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 19 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 20 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 21 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 22 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |