Example sentences of "[adj] years [coord] [unc] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | in the last two or three years and er it is in danger of overwhelming us . |
2 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
3 | He used to come to and I was a member of Springbank for sixty years and er anything I can do Richard , you know . |
4 | I mean , I 've been analyzing every dream I can remember now for the last twenty one years and er I think I 've got rather good at dream interpretation I must admit . |
5 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
6 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |
7 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
8 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
9 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
10 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |