Example sentences of "fifteen years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Bishop of Liege dies fifteen years before he should : does this invalidate Quentin Durward ? |
| 2 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 3 | And that was fifteen years before I grew this moustache . ’ |
| 4 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 5 | Why you 're doing this Christmas , it may be my last , John said what do you mean , I said well , I do n't know if I 'm going to be in a classroom this time next year , I mean , I really enjoy Christmas with the children , fifteen years since I 've done it , I 've forgotten how I enjoyed myself . |
| 6 | It is fifteen years since he first explored the relationship of real flesh and its marble parallels in art history . |
| 7 | It was at least fifteen years since he 'd carried a glass across a room to her . |
| 8 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 9 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 10 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |
| 11 | Oh n no we 've , we 've been in the area for about fifteen years but we 've , we needed a move up so er that 's why we 've come here . |
| 12 | Fifteen years after it began , women are still numerically under-represented in high-status and decision-making areas of the discipline . |
| 13 | He began , ‘ You have been in the House fifteen years and it 's time you were promoted … and I now want you to go to the Board of Education . |
| 14 | I 've worked in these homes for fifteen years and it was going on when I first started there . |
| 15 | You can repay the money over five to fifteen years and you decide how long . |
| 16 | Depends on how long you 've known each other I mean fifteen years and you 've only just ! |
| 17 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 18 | In all the years , and I 've been it 's secretary now for fifteen years and I have n't had any trouble . |
| 19 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 20 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |