Example sentences of "six years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 2 | The EC is joining with countries bordering the Rhine in a plan to reintroduce salmon to the river , six years after it was declared ecologically-dead as a result of the Sandoz chemical plant . |
| 3 | He had been married to Ellen for six years but they had no children . |
| 4 | It is eight years since they lost a World Cup qualifying match , six years since they lost a qualifying match for either of the international competitions open to European countries . |
| 5 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 6 | It was six years since she 'd crossed the bridge from where they 'd stood , and the river that flowed between was a torrent . |
| 7 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 8 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 9 | It was nearly six years since I first met the people of Sabra and Shatila . |
| 10 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 11 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 12 | Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up . |
| 13 | It took , by her own admission , six years before she felt comfortable appearing in her starring role . |
| 14 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 15 | In any case , Rutter 's ridicule seems a grotesquely inappropriate response to our constructive and it now seems , prescient , suggestion made some six years before he first presented his own distinguished views on the subject of lead pollution . |
| 16 | He painted them both five or six years before he died . ’ |
| 17 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 18 | According to Bernier , who regularly visited the fort over the six years that he spent in and around Delhi : |
| 19 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 20 | In another case , a director of an investment company was disqualified for 10 years and his co-director for six years because they had caused the company to continue trading while insolvent , had transferred assets to other companies which subsequently failed , and had been seriously negligent . |
| 21 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 22 | ‘ We have not been massacred in any game over the last six years and it wo n't start on Wednesday , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Maza had gained a high reputation for leading the fight against " narco-terrorism " over the previous six years and he also claimed several successes in rescuing the kidnap victims of the drug cartels . |
| 24 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 25 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |