Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a reader of over 60 years I never found you more stimulating . |
| 2 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |
| 3 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 4 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 5 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 6 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 7 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 8 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 9 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 10 | At least ten years I 'd say . |