Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She resembles closely the ‘ buxom Welsh cousin named Florence , who was probably eight or nine years my senior ’ , so described in The Childhood , with whom he spent ‘ the most blissful hours ’ in country walks from his grandmother 's Swindon home to Shaw or Lydiard when he was ten or eleven . |
| 2 | I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years |
| 3 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 4 | I see things like senile dementia as being a direct result of restricted breathing over very many years — in 20 , 30 or 40 years you can do to yourself the same sort of thing that happens in an operating theatre if oxygen is withdrawn . ’ |
| 5 | Empirically however , the last century has been dominated by a major movement of people away from the countryside , although in the past 10 or 20 years there has been a significant repopulation of rural areas . |
| 6 | Explaining a new policy drift which will respect local political will at the expense of new development , Mr Patten said : ‘ Over the next 10 or 12 years we are going to need substantial numbers of new houses . |
| 7 | Over a period of 10 or 15 years we will see our soil improving by using this technique . |
| 8 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |
| 9 | ‘ Every six or seven years it overruns the Humboldt . ’ |
| 10 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 11 | A group of infertile couples who were initially interviewed in 1981 ( in a study funded by the SSRS ) and who have one or more children now aged between 7 and 11 years who were conceived by donor insemination , will be interviewed again during the summer of 1989 . |
| 12 | Because their tour of duty usually lasted no more than three or four years their primary loyalties were thought to be to their careers in the Home Office at large . |
| 13 | I see from your application form that you 've sold space er for three or four years which |
| 14 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 15 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 16 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
| 17 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Mainly for where it 's lived for the last three or four years I think . |
| 19 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 20 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 21 | However , during the past three or four years there has been a gross deterioration in farmers ' incomes . |
| 22 | Most of the courses lasted for 6 hours ( one day ) or 12 hours ( two days ) but over the past 5 or 6 years there had been an increase in the number of shorter courses . |
| 23 | The cumulative amount of goodwill resulting from acquisitions during the current and previous years which has been written off , net of goodwill attributable to disposals before 31st March 1991 , totals £3,850,000 . |
| 24 | In the last ten or fifteen years there has been a trend away from this geographical separation of the clinic , and there are now several purpose-built departments above ground designed as integral parts of new hospital complexes . |
| 25 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
| 26 | We , we , it 's fairly clear that the manual gears is virtually , within five or six years it 's going to be very , very , very small . |
| 27 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 28 | slag on it maybe er five or six years you get a heavy dose of slag . |
| 29 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 30 | For Sidonius the immediate result was exile , but after one or two years he did return , and lived out his life as bishop , albeit harassed by his own clergy , until the late 480s . |