Example sentences of "year [conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us here present today have worked for our employers for over two years so we have some protection under law . |
| 2 | I did not get a grant for my preclinical years so I worked half time in research for two years . |
| 3 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |
| 4 | Formerly Associate Technical Director , he was with the Institute for 33 years until he retired four years ago |
| 5 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 6 | Many in the farming industry say the current system has survived well for seventy years and they see little reason for changing it . |
| 7 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 8 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 9 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 10 | Please find enclosed letters from two members of the Parish Council who have lived in the area for many years and who have personal knowledge of the situation with regard to this route . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 13 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 14 | Its characteristics include adjustable string tension , a system which has been underrated in previous years but which has incalculable benefits to the regular club enthusiast . |
| 15 | ‘ It has been a closed shop for years but we conducted extensive lobbying of other clubs this time . |
| 16 | We 've had that pebble-dash nearly , nearly , it 's nearly two years since they did that pebble-dash . |
| 17 | ‘ What you seem to forget is that it 's on sixteen years since you left this house . |
| 18 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 19 | It would be many long years before they saw each other again . |
| 20 | Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran , legends of the ring years before they reached this collision , will reach out and try to mist the reality that they are both beyond their peaks of power and reflex action . |
| 21 | And that was fifteen years before I grew this moustache . ’ |
| 22 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 23 | It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials . |
| 24 | We were a tiny fumbling company for ten years before anybody took any notice of us . |
| 25 | In June Paul Callaghan , 27 , was jailed for 15 years after he admitted five robberies , a rape and an indecent assault . |
| 26 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 27 | The late Raymond Lewenthal is perhaps best known these days as the first performer in modern times to have revived the music of Alkan , a collection of whose music he also published two years after he made these Gershwin recordings ( in Walthamstow Town Hall , of all places ) . |
| 28 | Three years after he wrote this letter , Jeremy Taylor died of a fever in his diocese at the age of fifty-four . |
| 29 | TWO and a half years after she made national headlines with her searing attack on George Bush at the 1988 Democratic national convention , Ann Richards was inaugurated as Texas 's 45th governor on January 15th . |
| 30 | Most eventually got honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards — alias the ‘ Whoops , sorry , we forgot you ’ Oscars , or even ‘ Whoops , sorry , we did n't know you were still around ’ , as happened to Sophia Loren in January , thirty years after she won Best Actress for Two Women . |