Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 2 | ‘ After 13 years of it I knew I wanted to go into painting full-time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | My husband , when I met him , looked intensely lived-in , and after seventeen years of me , ‘ squatted-in ’ would be more the term for it . |
| 4 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 5 | The landlord said to him you know she , she she sort of took a lease out for three years on it . |
| 6 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 7 | We had arrived in Indonesia speaking very little of the language , with 20,000 feet of film stock and what was left of Ringo 's £2,000 , intending to film our search for the Bird of Paradise with the Bugis pirates aboard the schooners which Alfred Wallace himself had sailed in 125 years before us . |
| 8 | The partnership which we 've built up over many years with you means that I 'm confident that British tax payers and recipients in er dep developing countries are getting the best possible value for money when government supports S C F initiatives and what is true for S C F is true for the many other M G , N G Os with whom we work . |
| 9 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 10 | I 've not had anything close to twelve years like it , since , I can tell you ! |
| 11 | She held on to twenty years of him . |
| 12 | She had survived for four years without him ; she did n't need him any more . |
| 13 | So you 're looking for mm well if she 's ten at the moment you 're looking at ten years plus I suppose . |