Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] year i " in BNC.

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1 Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron .
2 During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 .
3 And when we doubled the company 's turnover in one year I decided to investigate his methods . ’
4 In the early part of this year I , along with the relevant Group director , visited the majority of Wood Group companies to report on progress and our future plans .
5 Erm on the on the twenty third or thereabouts on the twenty third of March of this year I myself got stopped for drink driving .
6 In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement .
7 I know I will have that again this season and with the experience of last year I know that winning the number one plate for 1992 is a reasonable ambition . ’
8 Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this .
9 As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control .
10 I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham .
11 Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England .
12 And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now .
13 In October of this year I would like to hold another sale to raise £1,000 for Breast Cancer Research and would like to ask you readers if they would help me once again by donating one item no matter how small , or if they have some spare yarn but not time to knit it up and would like to donate the yarn I have some people who would help me to knit it .
14 In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian .
15 Oh yeah these maintenance contracts are the lowest , I mean I took one out on my mum 's C D player because they 'd , they 'd had trouble with it , er multi play , turns out it was the stack one they had trouble with not that one , but it was only thirty quid for four years I mean
16 Now we 're doing a little bit of reversion and it is much regret by God for five years I have negotiated budgets with the Labour group against intense opposition to Conservatives and central government to improve the services in Oxfordshire .
17 I have argued with my district health authority for many years I know that many hon. Members have done the same with theirs — because it has for various reasons shifted the problem of elderly sick people to the private sector .
18 Way back at the start of this year I planned into the workshop schedule an exhibition piece .
19 Well , you learned to hold your own in those days , but some , some of them were n't too particular about bathing and what washing you know things like that , but er you got the usual crop of pigeon flies but there was no hooliganism , occasionally when , when it was election time and when Sir Richard was candidate for one year I remember , they came round and the people from Street and round that road they paraded through Caldmore and Palfry and there was a little bit of rough stuff went on there heckling and booing and shouting , but I do n't think any harm done .
20 As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read .
21 Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it .
22 In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ .
23 And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings .
24 After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing .
25 But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area .
26 AS a Crusaders supporter for many years I 'm concerned at the lack of a youth policy at Seaview .
27 Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran .
28 Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male .
29 I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off .
30 This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’
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