Example sentences of "[adj] years i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 2 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 3 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 4 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 5 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 6 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 7 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 8 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 9 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 10 | For some years I tended to assume that the computers would merely give us a better documented description of the language , but I do not think that that position remains tenable . |
| 11 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 12 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 13 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 14 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 15 | Forty years I 've known Gloria . |
| 16 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 17 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 18 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 19 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 20 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
| 21 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I think , you know , in the last few years I 've really I think it is changing . |
| 25 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 26 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 27 | During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur . |
| 28 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 29 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 30 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |