Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reminded us of our debt to those whose labour supported our studies and I recalled this many years later when , passing through Harvard , I read the inscription commemorating the foundation of its college in order that future generations might be spared an unlettered clergy . |
| 2 | He and I worked together last year when I chaired TVS 's political programme Questions . |
| 3 | And I recall also some years ago , Mr Rayne , who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginald Mauvis , remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station . |
| 4 | ‘ And you stayed there eight years , so you are now eighteen ? ’ |
| 5 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
| 6 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether the child was happy with Mrs Reed , but she stayed there ten years , until she went to Lowood school , where you were yourself . |
| 8 | But we started late last year did n't we ? |
| 9 | ‘ People have moaned about a Harlequins bias in the current England team , but they did alright this year did n't they ? |
| 10 | He had seemed indefatigable ; his diaries reveal that between 1865 and 1870 he had travelled at least forty-two thousand miles per year , but he died only seven years after his father , leaving the business in the capable hands of his sons Ernest , Frank and Tom . |
| 11 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 12 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |