Example sentences of "[num] years but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 've got to get some years in to get a really good pension , but I 've got thirteen and the maximum you can get is forty years but you get , then get two thirds of the salary you would have got , |
| 2 | He had been married to Ellen for six years but they had no children . |
| 3 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 4 | Northamptonshire has been under Conservative control for the last eight years but it 's still tight . |
| 5 | Not many redwoods , or sequoias , exceeded 3000 years but they were generally considered the oldest living matter until the development of the Swedish increment borer enabled dendrologists ( people who study the natural history of trees ) to age a tree without felling it . |
| 6 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , released to coincide with the anniversary and cataloguing a history of discrimination , violence and injustice , stated that " the mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced over the past 500 years but they have never stopped " . |
| 7 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 8 | ‘ He will be out of prison in three years but I have to live with this , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 10 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 11 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 12 | The mine in the gill had been established about 5 years but it is very likely that it would have been an old working re-opened . |
| 13 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 14 | The population of Snaith has doubled in the past 25 years but it is still small enough to ‘ know everybody ’ ; ask for people by name , rather than by their address ! |
| 15 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 16 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 17 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 19 | Oh n no we 've , we 've been in the area for about fifteen years but we 've , we needed a move up so er that 's why we 've come here . |
| 20 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |
| 21 | ‘ I had been visiting hospitals every week for 37 years but you get a different perspective after something like this . |
| 22 | Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . |
| 23 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 24 | ‘ I agreed to do the job for five years but I feel that it is taking up too much of my time , ’ he declared . |
| 25 | The Rev. Joseph Edelson , a controversial Anglo-Catholic who gave his name to the house , was vicar of Gainford for 40 years but he also had other interests . |
| 26 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 27 | Friends of Eleanor , 52 , said : ‘ Eleanor had known about Sandy 's friendship for two years but she decided enough was enough . ’ |
| 28 | The judge , Mr Justice Humphrey Potts , said he would have put Casabona behind bars for two years but he had already served an equivalent term on remand . |
| 29 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 30 | Publicity officer Frances Hopwood told the Herald : ‘ It would be a difficult task trying to report on the many aspects of Le Court which have benefited from her influence and forward thinking during these 19 years but it is thanks to her that Le Court has evolved to be the ‘ flagship of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation ’ . ’ |