Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 2 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 3 | And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place . |
| 4 | So it stayed 70 years on the floor . |
| 5 | Just two weeks before starting work at Rentokil Dick married his wife Pat , so really he had 50 years to celebrate ! |
| 6 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 7 | Mind you I was I was still on three years in in colours and and then I got nine years reserve to do after that . |
| 8 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 9 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 10 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 11 | This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go . |
| 12 | Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks . |
| 13 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 14 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 17 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 18 | He , knowing of vindictive blood in her family , got her kidnapped and dumped on St Kilda , where she spent several years , with a waiting-maid for company . |
| 19 | We er we concur with the General Secretary 's er when he said two years ago there will be four super unions by the year two thousand obviously that 's gon na be a reality . |
| 20 | ‘ When my grandparents came on holiday with us , he was the one who took us round castles and museums and told me stories about being in the Scots Guards , ’ said Marjory , who inherited most of his books when he died two years ago . |
| 21 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 22 | He went on to Italy , where he spent two years in the study of medicine at Padua University . |
| 23 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 24 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 25 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 26 | Mike Watts is returning from Canada where he emigrated twenty years ago and his ‘ bit of a holiday ’ is as modest as the Columbus connection is an overstatement . |