Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |
| 2 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 3 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 4 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 5 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 6 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 7 | ‘ We are the first England representative team to face the Springboks in 23 years and we must make it a memorable day , one the selectors can not ignore . ’ |
| 8 | It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out . |
| 9 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 10 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 11 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 13 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 14 | I 've been with my current boyfriend for four years and we have a daughter . |
| 15 | ‘ We have known each other for 14 years and we just do n't want to spoil what we have . ’ |
| 16 | Stanley will serve for two years and we all wish him well . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |