Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 2 | But during these last few years she had felt tired , weary . |
| 3 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 4 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 5 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 6 | Over the last three years she 's developed a hardness that Mother never had . |
| 7 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 8 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |
| 9 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 10 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 11 | He had formed her life , as for the last twelve years she had lived it , formed her every day by the acts of one extraordinary night . |
| 12 | For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children . |
| 13 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 14 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 15 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 16 | Yeah sh , only the last two years she 's gone a bit blind or otherwise she could do anything could n't she ? |
| 17 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 18 | It 's hoped within the next two years she 'll make a full recovery , but it 's still not certain whether her marriage will ever recover . |
| 19 | Over the last seven years she has worked as a manager in the retail industry in Oxford . |