Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months . |
| 2 | POLICEWOMAN Pauline Tilley said afterwards on behalf of the grieving families : ‘ If the judge had given Gooch 100 years it would probably not be enough , because you can not bring the lives of five children back . ’ |
| 3 | Two years of training compared favourably with the minimum three years it took to acquire a degree . |
| 4 | I N recent years it has become I increasingly obvious that I councils prepared to ‘ deal ’ with the private sector in this way will be ‘ rewarded ’ . |
| 5 | We get people you say well I , you know somebody told me a couple of months back how to use the diary system by you know putting the note in and then dating it when you want to remind yourself been in the company ten years you know all this sort of stuff and it 's just useful bits you know the whole and all this sort of stuff . |
| 6 | But she stayed in school four years you know . |