Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] year i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 2 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 3 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 4 | Yeah having worked in newspapers er for two or three years I n I now know that the er what you look , well I did n't look for cos I was on the business page , what people look for is a good story and it does n't |
| 5 | And this last two or three years I 've s I 've become to realize that how important acting and performing is to me , and h how much more there is to do in it . |
| 6 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 7 | I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years |
| 8 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |
| 9 | four or five years I think |
| 10 | Mainly for where it 's lived for the last three or four years I think . |
| 11 | ‘ Many Japanese are nationalistic , so even I , when I decided to join Arthur Andersen , thought that after 18 months or two years I would leave and open my own office . |
| 12 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 13 | you see , until my next birthday , that is , you see , but I , well each year , you see , I always say well to my friends I am so thankful for my friends who drop in and each year I say , well I do n't suppose I will be here much longer but I shall be here , I hope , while I can walk |
| 14 | And this year I 've got them , they 're a good seven foot tall in the garden . |
| 15 | you , you know , last year I invited Kim round , cos she , she did n't have , and this year I 'm gon na ask her if she 'd liked to come |
| 16 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
| 17 | Chapel Anniversary was always a treat and one year I sang a song , ‘ Wo n't You Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
| 18 | and of course , as I say , being at Cambridge there was a little theatre there and er we used to see so many of the actors and actresses that used to come into our lives you see because there were five places on the station , for instance , there was the tea room adjoining the , there was a large kiosk , large kiosk one girl in there , you see , and er there was , then there was this large which is the biggest and then the dining room that , you see and er so and , and one year I , I wrote it down but erm , one year I remember we took forty four thousand pounds which was a lot of money and er , you see , well er I got on very well with the girls |
| 19 | I also know that luck is important in winning a championship and last year I was sometimes a lucky rider . ’ |
| 20 | A U/V Steriliser was connected to the header pool circuit and last year I also added a shop-purchased filter to this to give more filter power and to help polish the water . |
| 21 | And last year I could n't say well this is my long-term objective . |
| 22 | It 's just that this year I have had a lot of weak influencing situations , been on a lot of projects groups and so on , and last year I needed a lot of extra staff . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was fifteen my mother thought I was still a child … but that year I discovered life , rock and roll and love with a boy named Brownie Hansen … ’ |
| 24 | I read that runners could only run five ultra events a year , but that year I ran eight , then 13 the next year and 18 the next , and I think others began to realise you can do more if you take the right approach . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |
| 26 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 27 | last year I was cutting cauliflowers weighing nearly five and seven pound , but this year I sha n't have one weight two pound ! |
| 28 | But next year I 'll be back . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah I know that but next year I mean you got the tunnel coming out of the Ferry . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |