Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I , well I just did n't realize it was anything like that , I had I 've had four children and the last one there was thirteen years difference between them and it was really , really terrible ! |
2 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
3 | ‘ I know there was three years difference in our ages , and what some people are saying , but none of it is true . |
4 | The technique was first described in its initial format in 1985 , and over the next three years appreciation of its potential gradually became widespread . |
5 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
6 | There ca n't be many Link readers who do not recognise operations manager right , and mill manager centre , who have completed over 50 years service between them ! |
7 | Had he agreed to resign , he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years ' service in Poor Law Institutions ; as it was , he was given only the nine years entitlement from his time at Bedford . |
8 | After nine years association with him he can still move me to tears , and other people in the Labour Party who might be more cynical than I am . ’ |
9 | Father was invalided out before the end of the war with a poisoned hand , and a year after his return my youngest brother was born , there being over seventeen years difference in our ages . |
10 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
11 | WHEN Morgan Guaranty Trust moved into new offices in whitefriars earlier this year , it was natural that CCG should move with them to their new staff restaurant , as they already had four years experience of our catering . |