Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for nearly seven years she looked like an old woman of eighty . |
| 2 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 3 | After 1985 the Americans were increasingly happy to forget about their affair with Ceauşescu , but for almost twenty years it was a important plank of their foreign policy . |
| 4 | It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift . |
| 5 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |