Example sentences of "year [coord] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the farming industry say the current system has survived well for seventy years and they see little reason for changing it . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | ‘ It has been a closed shop for years but we conducted extensive lobbying of other clubs this time . |
| 7 | Despite archaeological discoveries which are still being made year by year and which throw more light upon the Etruscan civilisation , knowledge of these people , their origins , their way of life is still far from complete . |