Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but Pete if he , I mean I do n't see why he does n't if he went private for two years he 'd make enough to retire , in two years , no sweat , he wo n't have to work again , I mean I bet his house is paid for |
| 2 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |
| 4 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 5 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 6 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 7 | In the next 5 to 10 years it 'll come through strong . |
| 8 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 9 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 10 | Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde . |
| 11 | Spain and Portugal stressed during the proceedings their willingness to continue to act as bridges for Latin American access to the European Communities ; the Spanish government also announced that during the next four to five years it would invest over US$14,000 million in the Latin American region . |
| 12 | For four to five years he was in Paris and Rouen , with occasional visits to Italy . |
| 13 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 14 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |