Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 2 | My personal preference is for Michelin as I have had many years and miles of trouble free use from them . |
| 3 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 4 | The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 . |
| 5 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 6 | Characteristically , however , Chapman was to learn from the defeat , just as he had done twenty years before after Northampton 's defeat by Norwich . |
| 7 | Even love , as he had explained five years before in a poem briskly called ‘ Love ’ ( 1966 ) , calls for a lot of cheek : ‘ … the blind persistence/To upset an existence/Just for your own sake . ’ |
| 8 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 9 | That 's the theory which Neil Prosser follows , anyway , and as he 's got 16 years of successful retailing behind him , it 's hard to argue with the strategy . |