Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During adolescent years when we face the responsibilities of adulthood and the prospect of choosing a career and making a living in the world . |
| 2 | For some years now they had licensing agreements with some major U S companies to produce ‘ Laura Ashley ’ designs on sheets and other home furnishings . |
| 3 | The position on the particular issue to which the hon. Gentleman refers is that for some years now we have pursued the same policy that the money has been , in the formula applied , additional and is reflected in higher public spending plans , and that it is for the Commissioner to honour the pledge that we have had for years past . |
| 4 | For some years now he had shared the sheep herding with his Uncle George : the latter had never been particularly strong and now it was obvious that he was very ill . |
| 5 | For some years now I have been researching an area where a certain event took place . |
| 6 | For some years now I have not been much in society . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 8 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 9 | KELLY EMBERG After six years together she won £7,000 a month palimony |
| 10 | After three years there I was head-hunted by a marketing agency , D. F. & L. Associates , which was based just north of the City . |
| 11 | To fit myself for this level of teaching after many years away I did an M.Phil . |
| 12 | After five years when it seems it has been written , rewritten , proof read etc , I have now run out of answers . |
| 13 | He raged : ‘ I 'm hurt and angry that after five years here I heard I was sacked on my car radio . ’ |
| 14 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 15 | His study was interrupted after two years when he was posted abroad and he rejoined OU three years ago . |
| 16 | But as I say he was the most conscientious removal man and after two years when he came in he was so upset . |
| 17 | Ed Stafford , 37 , had bee married for six years when he divorced in 1982 . |
| 18 | ‘ For six years now we 've had two political groups , the High-Heels and the Low-Heels . |
| 19 | She 's wanted to be a doctor for six years now she 's decided |
| 20 | He himself had been an American citizen for twenty-eight years when he replied otherwise to the adjutant 's inquiry . |
| 21 | The vocabulary is different from the comments of fifty years earlier which wounded and infuriated Pound , and drove him out of England , but the sentiments are identical . |
| 22 | Leonard Coote , President has a record of service to the Association extending back in excess of 30 years when he was first elected a branch representative . |
| 23 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 24 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 25 | KONICA Rejects got their hands on the Glaslyn Cup competed for at Porthmadog after a break of 16 years when they beat Harry 's Bluebirds in a penalty shoot-out in a dramatic final . |
| 26 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 27 | Since that time Art has developed and flourished remarkably in the West Riding , and instead of the lurid paintings of twenty years ago we now have sensitive work stimulated by experience of the environment . |
| 28 | Of the Irish contingent , The Committee on recent form stands out but if Cahervillahow were to recapture if only fleetingly the form of two years ago you need look no further for the winner . |
| 29 | Before the right hon. Gentleman issues a denial , will he confirm that before the previous election the Tories said that they would continue to pay child benefit as before — only to freeze it immediately for three years when they took office ? |
| 30 | I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school . |