Example sentences of "[prep] [num] 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 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 3 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 4 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 5 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 6 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 7 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 8 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
| 9 | For three years I have n't known what the big job will be . |
| 10 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 11 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 12 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 16 | ‘ In 15 years I 've never been injured . |
| 17 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 18 | But er within two years I 'd doubled me book and I was averaging over five pound a week , then . |
| 19 | In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last . |
| 20 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 21 | Now we 're doing a little bit of reversion and it is much regret by God for five years I have negotiated budgets with the Labour group against intense opposition to Conservatives and central government to improve the services in Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |
| 23 | ‘ For nine years I have virtually lived with him . |
| 24 | He declared ( 24 December 1956 ) : ‘ For 37 years I have worked for unity . |
| 25 | For twelve years I had greatly enjoyed being a guest of some of the members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on their championship links of Muirfield on the coast of East Lothian , where once or twice as a boy I had played with my grandfather . |
| 26 | For twelve years I have wandered through |
| 27 | For twenty years I had trained my mind that when not preoccupied with washing up , searching the window frames for rotting wood or examining my bank statements , it was to work on plots , characters and the general creation of fiction . |
| 28 | For twenty years I 've wondered whether my suspicions were well founded . |
| 29 | For twenty years I have known the same man and yet still I do not know him . |
| 30 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |