Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 2 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 3 | After twenty-five years we can indeed see much response to Dei Verbum , but it is still limited . |
| 4 | For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre . |
| 5 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 6 | ‘ For 21 years we have immunised 93,000 children in Bangladesh , planted 1.1m tree seedlings in Ethiopia , provided clothing and food for 400,000 people in Mozambique and helped over 100,000 children in India gain literacy skills . |
| 7 | For seventy years we have been slaves to the tyrannical French . |
| 8 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ For ten years we have sat and watched Diana being destroyed . |
| 10 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 11 | Similarly , we were relying on the vastness of the oceans to dilute and disperse whatever bacteria and viruses allowed into them ; in 30 years we might be regretting it . |
| 12 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 13 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 14 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 15 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 16 | Within five years we want to be close to 15 per cent . ’ |
| 17 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 18 | In two years we went from a £32m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £150m , to a £14m loss . |
| 19 | The current Royal Commission report indicates that this type of er , this likely to be on average twenty times the current legal limits within a year to two years we will be looking at receiving it which is ten times plant producing two hundred fold the legal limits dialysis . |
| 20 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 21 | For 14 years we owned a large hairy dog . |
| 22 | For two years we have been refocussing the organisation of the profession and defining our key objectives . |
| 23 | ‘ For seven years we have been gypsies , wandering with no home . |