Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 2 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 4 | For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 . |
| 5 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 6 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 7 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 8 | As a result , artists feel that if they have parted company with their manager after three years it is unfair if their previous manager continues to take commission on album sales for another seven years . |
| 9 | After three years it was possible to revert to your own name or to have another false one , thereby preserving the anonymity . |
| 10 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 11 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 12 | After fifteen years he was still pursuing his feud against his master-mason , unwilling to let even his bones rest . |
| 13 | Labour 's simple , single theme is that after 13 years it is time for a change . |
| 14 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 15 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 16 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 17 | After two years he was back heading Brigade S , a swing pop band who borrowed much from Kid Creole And The Coconuts . |
| 18 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 19 | For 10 years he was the principal of the school in Spain , before becoming a merchant banker and financial consultant . |
| 20 | For 45 years it was the home of the Wiltshire historian Canon Jackson . |
| 21 | There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce . |
| 22 | At the end of three years they were no further on . |
| 23 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 24 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 25 | After the age of 5 years it is suggested that language increasingly becomes a tool for higher intellectual functions and therefore is difficult to assess independently of other cognitive processes . |
| 26 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 27 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 28 | Over a period of twenty years it is claimed that a fast reactor could breed enough additional plutonium to fuel another similar power station . |
| 29 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 30 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |