Example sentences of "[adv] [num] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , nearly twelve years I think now , no must , must be more than that |
| 2 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |
| 3 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 4 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 5 | wha what 'll it be about er about two years I think |
| 6 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 7 | At least ten years I 'd say . |
| 8 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 9 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 10 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 11 | ‘ Over five years I gave away about a million quid . |
| 12 | Over 28 years I 've had two broken marriages and broken homes , family and friends . |
| 13 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 14 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 15 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 16 | As a reader of over 60 years I never found you more stimulating . |
| 17 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 18 | You have to do it over four years I think if you do it that way |