Example sentences of "[verb] it about [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 2 | How perceptive he is , but did n't he know that the BBC had already produced it about two years ago with Frank Finlay and Miriam Karlin ? |
| 3 | ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago . |
| 4 | Ooh I 've , yeah , I 've been doing it about three years . |
| 5 | And I started it about fifteen years later ! |
| 6 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 7 | I only got it about 6 years ago , but the badge is the smiley or ‘ penis ’ ( smiley penis ! ? ! ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I bought it about two years ago . |
| 9 | We got a big one where erm , sort of , it 's really cold , and so we keep erm , the longest dates and everything erm , that we do n't need immediately , and then , we got the fridge/freezer , we got the freezer in the stock-room , which is ours , we we just bought it , wh , my parents bought it about three years ago , for ourselves . |
| 10 | Did it about five years ago |