Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] year of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businessman Tim Godwin last night paid tribute to ‘ the remarkable woman I shared 11 years of my life with ’ . |
| 2 | I suffered six years of mediocrity under Terry Neill , and I 'm not going to put up with it again . |
| 3 | I received five years of general secondary education and two years at computer training school . |
| 4 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 5 | It was n't that expensive , either , my childhood , because I spent seven years of it with my mum 's sister in the States . |
| 6 | Remember , I spent three years of my youth there . ’ |
| 7 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I lost three years of international chances but now I want to help Oxford win . ’ |
| 9 | In the early 1950s , I did one year of General Science . |
| 10 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 11 | Aye , I 've seventeen year of being married . |
| 12 | Additional information about examination results at age 16 is being added to the existing data-base which covers four years of junior schooling . |
| 13 | Reaching back even farther is Ruby Trax which covers 40 years of music in 40 cover versions — to celebrate 40 years of the New Musical Express , with all profits going to the 40-year-old Spastics Society . |
| 14 | Just after the despatch of the circular to provincial governors A. I. Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , began compiling a historical memorandum on serfdom which reviewed 200 years of legislation on the subject and drew on the documents generated by Nicholas I 's secret committees . |
| 15 | The accord , which followed two years of negotiations , was scheduled to come into force in September 1994 . |
| 16 | At primary level , the drop-out rate rose to 30 per cent in the cohort which finished seven years of school in 1987 and then fell to 16.4 per cent for those finishing in 1989 . |
| 17 | Her achievements are detailed in a section of the Good Health exhibition at the Dorman Museum which charts 100 years of health care in Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | The effects of the famine , which follows two years of drought , have been exacerbated by the non-arrival of foreign aid and fighting between clans for control of the southern provinces . |
| 19 | Making the announcement , which follows two years of uncertainty about the zoo 's future , Dr Gipps said £2.5 million was already assured for the capital project which would begin in the next financial year . |
| 20 | We are at present much exercised in considering the possibility that in order to satisfy the CATE criteria , particularly the one which stipulates two years of subject study , our commitment in this area of work may have to be reduced . |
| 21 | Dr Ingmar Lindquist is the new Director of the Church of Finland 's Information Centre which celebrates 25 years of existence this year . |
| 22 | Older workers tend to be at an advantage when applying for jobs in today 's labour market simply because they belong to a generation which had fewer years of schooling . |
| 23 | The new streamlined ‘ Action Team ’ at L.D.P. in Leamington Spa , headed by Tony Fallon , Sales Manager with ( from right ) , Anna Harris , Sales Office Supervisor who has many years of experience with L.D.P. ; Natalie Anstey with the all round versatility of youth ; Cynthia Clark and Jan McGrath having strong accountancy/customer liaison skills and Cora Lake with a sales/marketing background . |
| 24 | so what happened to all this Yeltsin thing right , has has it been so much build up , speculation of the West , you say thirty years of build up on our part is being wasted , we 've really got nothing to fear of the Russians ? |
| 25 | One of the pupils of Northampton High School to achieve distinction was Bernard L. Pitcher , who was born deaf and who received six years of private tuition before entering the school . |
| 26 | If you devote several years of your life to a subject , you ought to be reasonably sure that you 'll enjoy it . |
| 27 | Mrs Burford , who undertook one year of an A level art course at Darlington Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College and went to Hummersknott School , mostly paints pets and wildlife . |
| 28 | This award was instituted in 1900 in recognition of French firemen who distinguished themselves through their courageous actions ; or those who completed thirty years of irreproachable service . |
| 29 | George : ‘ If you prefer 2,000 years of art history , whereby if you have an exhibition for nudes , then everyone assumes it must be women , that 's fine . |
| 30 | She had one year of and she thinks erm it 's boring , bit of a dump ! . |