Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 2 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 3 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 4 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 5 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 6 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 7 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 8 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 9 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 10 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 11 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 12 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 13 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 14 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 15 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 16 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
| 17 | For three years I have n't known what the big job will be . |
| 18 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 19 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 20 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 21 | For many years I had the somewhat perverse view that instead of rewarding the salesman who always got the business , we should reward the one who lost it . |
| 22 | For many years I 've hated you and it seems so — pointless . ’ |
| 23 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 24 | As you know , for many years I have devoted time to families in my parish who foster babies for the charity , but now I feel I can do more . |
| 25 | For many years I have wished to ask my aunt to visit our beautiful town , ’ she wrote , ‘ but have been deterred from doing so by the knowledge that she would have to pass this stark , staring figure . |
| 26 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 27 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |
| 28 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 29 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 30 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |