Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 2 | over a number of years I was subjected to domestic violence , erm , the last time I left I did n't report it right away , morally it was my son , I did n't want to drag him through the court , but when I did I was told no , your too late , you will just be seen as a woman scorned , your trying to get revenge , and that 's it , no , I 'm not taking a statement . |
| 3 | The logic of the inhibitor approach is obvious , but for a number of years I was reluctant to get involved in doing such experiments , as it was n't clear to me that using broad spectrum inhibitors such as those for protein synthesis would tell me anything precise about the biochemical processes I was trying to unpick . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 5 | ‘ It is something I have had to come to terms with because in the past couple of years I have had to fly hundreds of times . |
| 6 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 7 | For the first couple of years I shared a flat with a friend , then my paternal grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy . |
| 8 | ‘ In a couple of years I 'll have an even better horse than Grye . ’ |
| 9 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 10 | but normally I ca n't sleep here I al I always admired anybody that could sleep with a for yea it 's only this last couple of years I can do it , no I mean I 'll doze . |
| 11 | I was happy as pop singer , the last couple of years I was n't happy when I ceased to be a pop singer and I was er headed on a road of being an entertainer . |
| 12 | Eventually , but it might have been in a couple of years I thought . |
| 13 | I says cos I said that fellow I says my husband 's mother for years I says , in fact and old photographs in the house we have of and his wife and a whole crowd . |
| 14 | It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali . |