Example sentences of "[adj] years [pers pn] 've " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years I 've known Gloria . |
| 2 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 3 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 4 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 5 | They 've always had links with industry and commerce , but over the last few years they 've recognised the need to develop and publicise their links . |
| 6 | Karen I I 'm forty-seven and I ca n't work me mother out , so , no chance for you working her out , few years you 've known her . |
| 7 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 8 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 9 | I think , you know , in the last few years I 've really I think it is changing . |
| 10 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 11 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 12 | For the past six years they 've spent time perfecting the revolutionary 3.6 litre , 32 valve , V8 engine . |
| 13 | Six years I 've had that . |
| 14 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 15 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
| 16 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 17 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 18 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 19 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 20 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 21 | All these years you 've spent chasing after something you know you ca n't have . |
| 22 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 23 | He 's told friends , " All these years I 've thrown away money on that child . " |
| 24 | ‘ All these years I 've known her and I never realised what a nasty temper she has , ’ said Rose . |
| 25 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 26 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 27 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 28 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 29 | Peop they 're like they 're like umbrellas that need unfolding and people say oh they 'll spread out and they 'll develop foliage well there 're similar sorts of trees on Castlegate and they 've been there about three years they 've done nothing in fact they 're dying . |
| 30 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |