Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
| 32 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 33 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 34 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 35 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 36 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 37 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 38 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 39 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 40 | During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated . |
| 41 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 42 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
| 43 | The three years I spent studying took a similar shape to my school years ; on the surface I did well , passing my exams with seemingly not too much trouble . |
| 44 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 45 | In the three years I 've been here , and because C&P was one of the first ICI groups to move into quality , the value of the quality ethos has taught me that it 's the only way to do business . |
| 46 | It was the worst years he had with his wife . |
| 47 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 48 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 49 | ‘ I have had to be flexible and open minded on selection for all of the six-and-a-half years I have had this job , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 50 | Through the psychedelic years he was a schoolboy in a depressed Lancashire cotton town , untouched alike by Liverpool noise and London turmoil . |
| 51 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 52 | One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development . |
| 53 | Over the succeeding years he repaid their great kindness with massive generosity . |
| 54 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 55 | He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her . |
| 56 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 57 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 58 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 59 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 60 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |