Example sentences of "[adj] years [adv] and i " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my companion remarked , the oldies are goldies and you ca n't get much ( g ) older than ‘ I stood on this stage 30 years ago and I was so successful they 've asked me back tonight . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 3 | Well I went to Venice er some years ago and I thought it was a dirty hole . |
| 4 | Cos I used this look , I said that erm I 'd re I had represented his father in an accident case some years before and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way , and I said this may suggest , because he was saying you can make up and you can , this is a bit when you can use your imagination , and I said this may suggest that his father , you know he 'd like , because it the way he says that , I 'd represented his father , I was acquainted , you know maybe that he knows he 's used to that kind of erm behaviour from the family , you know , and he knows what Eddie 's like his fa I do n't know I might be completely wrong but I used my imagination there . |
| 5 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 6 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 7 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 8 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 9 | I crawled down these stairs forty-eight years ago and I 've walked up and down them ever since , mostly in me bare feet , and I 've never got splinters . ’ |
| 10 | Speaking after BSAD 's national junior swimming championships , Mr O'Connor said : ‘ We have been coming to Darlington for eight years now and I can honestly say it gets better every time . |
| 11 | ‘ Billy moved away to work — ’ she hesitated for a fraction of a second' — out of London about three years ago and I started seeing someone and Cleo was the result . |
| 12 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 13 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 14 | My husband died 11 years ago and I built my world around Louis . |
| 15 | ‘ I joined 25 years ago and I became chairman in 1981 for five years , ’ he says . |
| 16 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 17 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 18 | Well I used the word to mo er in a report I was writing years ago it was ten years ago and I knew what I meant but I had n't sat down and defined what I meant , perhaps I should have done . |
| 19 | Well , I 've spoken about how we remember you but I know you have far more memories of being here those years ago and I know you 're really itching to get up off your seats and go and have a good look round to see where you were stationed and if it 's at all possible to see the huts , the billets or anything where you were . |
| 20 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 21 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 22 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 23 | My husband died nearly 15 years ago and I would like to reassure you that , although the pain never goes completely , time is indeed a great healer . |
| 24 | She adds : ‘ I 've worked since I was married 15 years ago and I could n't imagine just sitting around the house all day . |
| 25 | The estate was created thirty years ago and I do n't think they gave crime prevention a thought . |
| 26 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 27 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |
| 28 | I was widowed four years ago and I know only too well what a terrible thing it is to suddenly find yourself alone . |
| 29 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 30 | I 've played back-to-back rugby for four years now and I feel as fresh as the day that I started . |