Example sentences of "year [coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't succeed in oppressing me when I was in prison for 16 years and I ask you now , do n't stand alone when you can be together ’ . |
| 2 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 5 | for many years and I wheeled her around in a , in a |
| 6 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 7 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 8 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 9 | Ronnie had been in F1 since 1971 , he was recognized as one of the sport 's quickest ever drivers , he had given Lotus four years of loyal service during relatively lean years and he thought he thoroughly deserved the reward when Lotus came good . |
| 10 | Both Hitch and Morton had worked for Plummer for more than ten years and he trusted them as much as anyone in his organisation . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 12 | you need to this first year and it gets you up to that level |
| 13 | Erm , I seem to remember that when we met earlier in the year and you were looking forward to , to , to this year as a whole , I think you er , indicated that it was going to be a good year and I think you also suggested , if I remember right , that you thought the better part of that improvement would be seen in the second half rather than the first . |
| 14 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 15 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 16 | Erm and the limit was five thousand pounds for one year but I think they only pay half the fees or something of whatever course it is . |