Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 2 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 3 | Erm , you know she had this cancer seven years ago when she had her breast cancer and , had her breast taken off they 've now found it 's gone further in seven years she , you know , she was |
| 4 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 5 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 6 | You would argue with me who have taught here for twenty years you , you , Gwendoline turned and fled . |
| 7 | Even after 37 years they give you problems from time to time . ’ |
| 8 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 9 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 10 | I I was very keen er when I had my daughter erm I was quite happy about it and I I I used them , then after three years I did n't use them . |
| 11 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 12 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 13 | He lay awake in the big double bed where for sixteen years he had striven desperately to create the heirs to inherit his many rich acres , but there had been no children . |
| 14 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |