Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 2 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 3 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 4 | I have worked in adult education for 12 years and I am proud , like the education spokesman for the Social and Liberal Democrats and , I think , the Leader of the Opposition , to be a vice-president of the Workers Educational Association . |
| 5 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 6 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 7 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 8 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 9 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 10 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 11 | In the following year , ninety one ninety two , the number of applications held steady , but the total fee income declined slightly and in nineteen ninety two ninety three , whilst the number of applications fell slightly , the fee income fell considerably , so that in ninety two ninety three er there were more applications than in the , th the first of those , of those years that I quoted , but the fee income was twenty five percent down . |
| 12 | Of the males in Norway , one of the best of recent years that I have particularly liked was Norwegian Ch. |
| 13 | The Detectives , which pulled in bumper viewing figures when it was shown on BBC earlier this year , was a revelation for Jasper whose stand-up routines of recent years if I can be frank were dire . |
| 14 | I 'm 40 , I 've been living with my fiancé , who 's the same age , for three years and I think the world of him . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 16 | I 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’ |
| 17 | Another northern head , requesting anonymity , voiced his outrage at Labour 's prejudice : ‘ I 've worked in comprehensives for 18 years and I know as well as anyone that you can not get good education for working-class children without quality teachers and adequate resources . |
| 18 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 19 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 20 | ‘ I was captain of Darlington for many years so I know what it is like in his job . |
| 21 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 22 | I can well believe that at home I was going through some such process for many years before I became anorexic , as well as during the course of the disease itself . |
| 23 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 24 | I have been extremely interested in the youth of Shropshire for many years and I try to express this by such activities as being a confirmation catechist , working with young adults with physical and mental disabilities and also attending a week 's work experience at Dehon House . |
| 25 | for many years and I wheeled her around in a , in a |
| 26 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 27 | I 've been in the trade for 29 years and I 've never known it this bad . |
| 28 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Jeff added : ‘ BNFL people from several sites have collected food and clothing for us to take out in previous years and I would be grateful if people could help again . |