Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] year i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's a nice letter at last about the second this year I think which is n't bad going ! |
| 2 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 3 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 4 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 5 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 6 | For those first two years I was able to enjoy behaving childishly — a pleasure which I felt had been denied to me — and being relatively free from responsibility . |
| 7 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 8 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 9 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 10 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 11 | During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur . |
| 12 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 13 | In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream . |
| 14 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 15 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 16 | Ideally I would like to work part-time , and have written to you as in the last few years I have seen part-time posts advertised at Prentice 's . |
| 17 | Over the last few years I have actively participated in various Black women 's activities . |
| 18 | Generally my fish are too healthy to require treatment , but in the last few years I have been able to buy fish as they arrive in the country ( usually via the large fish shows . ) |
| 19 | Over the last few years I can admit to having heard enough of the individual experiences of examination candidates to make me totally cynical about a system which confers , supposedly , passes and grades of equal status on students in public examinations that cover so wide-ranging a diversity of structure and subject content . |
| 20 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 21 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 22 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 23 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |
| 24 | I think , you know , in the last few years I 've really I think it is changing . |
| 25 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 26 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
| 28 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 29 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 30 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |