Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years 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 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 3 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | AS a Crusaders supporter for many years I 'm concerned at the lack of a youth policy at Seaview . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male . |
| 20 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 21 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 22 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |