Example sentences of "[adj] year and [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I was there for nigh on two and a half years and er , then we moved from there to Germany |
| 2 | erm he is a member of Vanroch Caerphilly at URC and has done I think he is currently at and erm have felt a gentle call emerging over the last few years and erm all started in Cambridge , that 's about it , that 's all I can say . |
| 3 | Does n't he say something about there 's gon na be ten thousand small schools in a few years and erm |
| 4 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 5 | On the oil services division are there likely to be any further technology transfers this year and er secondly could David give some idea of the impact of the proposed B T U Tax in the United States ? |
| 6 | That 's a shame because I do n't normally use overheads and I 've got into them this year and er my stats group in particular , who get the same sort of treatment as you do , have actually said th |
| 7 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |
| 8 | and er I managed to get er do forty odd years and erm now I 'm quite happy on the pension that they gave me . |
| 9 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 10 | in the last two or three years and er it is in danger of overwhelming us . |
| 11 | The important figures for comparison with other surveys are 3.8% ( 72 ) men and 9.3% ( 197 ) women incontinent in the previous year and 2.8% ( 52 ) and 7.5% ( 159 ) respectively in the previous two months . |
| 12 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 13 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 14 | He used to come to and I was a member of Springbank for sixty years and er anything I can do Richard , you know . |
| 15 | Their mean age was 12.5 years and M:F ratio=1.6:1.0 H pylori infection was diagnosed by histology in 40/41 , by a positive urease test in 23/25 and by culture in 19/27 . |
| 16 | The training has gone well all year and erm they are coming on just right for the race . |
| 17 | ELMER WARD ‘ S Grumman G–58 Bearcat N3025 , flew for the first time after rebuild on July 27 , after a ten year and $2m restoration programme . |
| 18 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 19 | We have n't seen her for about ten , twelve years and er |
| 20 | I mean , I 've been analyzing every dream I can remember now for the last twenty one years and er I think I 've got rather good at dream interpretation I must admit . |
| 21 | Ernest Saunders , the former chairman of the brewing and distilling company Guinness plc , had been convicted on Aug. 27 on two charges of conspiring to contravene the 1958 Prevention of Fraud ( Investments ) Act , on eight charges of false accounting and on two charges of theft , and was sentenced on Aug. 28 to two concurrent terms of five years and 3@1\2 years respectively . |
| 22 | At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there . |
| 23 | At Vauxhall the unions are divided on a two-year offer of a 9.7 per cent rise plus a lump sum payment of £200 in the first year and inflation-plus-£5 in the second . |
| 24 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 25 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 26 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |
| 27 | Yes , this is another big problem I think you put that very well , that people forget , of course , that in clinical psychoan analysis the analyst has a vast amount of data , because the patient is going five times a week , or in Freud 's case , six times a week , for fifty minutes every day , six days a week , nine months of the year , often for several years and er , the , the sheer amount of data that the analyst gets , is absolutely immense . |
| 28 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 29 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 30 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |