Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 2 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 3 | Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health . |
| 4 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 5 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 6 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 7 | Golf 's popularity was putting pressure on the course because more local people played , and earlier in the day than previously , so the Artisans ' starting time was brought forward to ‘ no later than 8.30 a.m. ’ ( 30 years before it was 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 8 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 9 | He still lives on the outskirts of his adopted city close on 30 years after he signed for them . |
| 10 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |
| 11 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 12 | It has served its country dutifully for over 30 years and we are delighted to be its new custodians . ’ |
| 13 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 14 | We have been here 30 years and I do n't want to give up the No 10 . |
| 15 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 16 | During his time at the flour mill ( which is actually 30 years if you include an earlier spell ) he has been mixerman , cuber operator , machine man , bran packer and even cleaner — when there were seven employees per shift ! |
| 17 | Harry put in 410 League appearances for Crystal Palace and that stood as a record for over 30 years until it was overtaken by Terry Long in the late 1960s . |
| 18 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 19 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 20 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 21 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 22 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 23 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 24 | no it was some years before she re-married again |
| 25 | The drug 's being tested by cancer specialists … although it could be some years before it 's generally available . |
| 26 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 27 | It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland . |
| 28 | The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up . |
| 29 | Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did . |
| 30 | LEFT Fred Hoyle in 1955 , some years before he , Bond i and Gold propounded the Steady State Theory of the Universe . |