Example sentences of "year [coord] [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was with Jack for nearly two years and during that time I first met Greg Norman . |
| 2 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 3 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 4 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 5 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 6 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 7 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |