Example sentences of "[adv] [det] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 2 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 3 | After so many years I kept up this contact , especially with one or two who were real friends . |
| 4 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 5 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 6 | A strange phenomenon of bamboo is that , dependent on which variety , after so many years it flowers and then dies . |
| 7 | It might n't seem like a happy arrangement but after so many years it 's become one . |
| 8 | Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ? |
| 9 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 10 | And when the wedding 's gon na be and what you 're gon na wear and what you 're going to go there in and how many children you 're gon na have and how many years you 're gon na be married . |
| 11 | But , you know , when you when you borrow money , you get er , an interest rate , do n't you , over so many , yo you 've got to figure out ho how many years you 're gon na pay it back . |
| 12 | I hope you know how many years you 'll get for this said P C Garfield , of course I do I 'm not stupid . |
| 13 | From time to time that evening she was visited by the sight of the lake with its gold fretwork of fish ; she wondered how many years it would be before she could go to that place with equanimity . |
| 14 | I do n't know how many years it went on and then there were a lot of ploughs and boys a lot of their own ploughs I think . |
| 15 | She had commented on its goodness to Clare , who guessed at how many years it had lain fallow ; five — six ? |
| 16 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 17 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 18 | From this point of view , the only good American is one who stays shamefacedly mute about his English cousins , however many years he may have lived among them . |
| 19 | You to buy back however many years you buy back will count in your pension and lump sum calculation at the end of the day . |
| 20 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 21 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 22 | Many agree that for too many years we have been ‘ data rich ’ but not capable of computerising the knowledge and experience of highly skilled maintenance engineers . |
| 23 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |
| 24 | ‘ For very many years he has had mistresses . ’ |