Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has several years ' experience of teaching in the Sudan . |
| 2 | She says 5 years ago there was virtualy no crime , now that 's all changed and the community has had to respond to that change . |
| 3 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 4 | Well if she lasts another year and I 'll last another year , she 'll be older than me wo n't she ? |
| 5 | She faces 25 years in prison . |
| 6 | It beats last year 's record of 47 ( in Atlanta ) by 9 . |
| 7 | There are a few laughter lines around the eyes but the boyish grin is the same and at 57 , he looks 10 years younger . |
| 8 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 9 | He is thin really cos he looks , he looks he looks twenty years older than me . |
| 10 | He specifies 150 years because he has in mind the social and political reforms of Peter the Great in the early Eighteenth Century . |
| 11 | As he has other years . |
| 12 | He has many years experience in carpet retail selling . |
| 13 | Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard . |
| 14 | ( Hons. ) degree and has taught Maths , English and Social Sciences at both Primary and Middle schools , added to which he has 13 years experience in embalming . |
| 15 | He has eight years of GPs behind him and more crashes than he 'd care to remember . |
| 16 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 17 | He has 30 years experience in the sector . |
| 18 | Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix . |
| 19 | It has this year as well I think . |
| 20 | accident at service cos he wants all year four holding |
| 21 | He wants those years in jail allowed against the life sentence he got for the M60 machine-gun murder of SAS captain Herbert Westmascott in May , 1980 . |
| 22 | Throughout the book Eccleshall demonstrates an impressive authority and ease with his sources as he ransacks 300 years of Conservative thought to discover the meaning of Conservatism . |
| 23 | He says last year he suffered two slipped discs . |
| 24 | Richard says he started ski-ing on the coast and then one day went out with skies and that 's how he started barefoot … he says three years ago he stopped competing as life or death and just goes out to enjoy himself |
| 25 | He describes five years of hell and terror , as the bulldozers clearing space for Ceausescu 's Palace came ever closer to his house . |
| 26 | Also her son , though young and ‘ with it ’ , would prefer an exquisitely knitted and finished find wool classic sweater in a quiet colour or a heavier , brighter , really big sweater for cold weather — but I must find out first what colour he fancies this year ! |
| 27 | It 's a sobering thought for current Archbishop Dr George Carey as he prepares this year 's Christmas message . |
| 28 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 29 | he gets sixty-three years , you know , I mean what 's the use of keeping a bugger like that for sixty-three years , it 's bloody ridiculous , in n it ? |
| 30 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |