Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
2 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
3 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
4 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
5 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
6 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
7 | Tom joined the AEA police at Sellafield in 1969 and then transferred to Chapelcross in 1974 , where he completed 18 years service . |
8 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
9 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
10 | And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library |
11 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
12 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
13 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
14 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
15 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
16 | The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good . |
17 | And do children really do the same chemistry that I did twenty years ago ? |
18 | It 's ev , actually a little bit more complex than that , which is that the things that I used this year , I may not use next year , and I probably , almost certainly wo n't use two years ago . |
19 | I have two Telecasters , a 1980s Rosewood Telecaster and there 's a brand new American sunburst Telecaster that I bought last year as a spare . |
20 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
21 | Before that I worked fifteen years for a international bank . |
22 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
23 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
24 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
25 | These remained and the following sequence over a month all proved ineffective although she commented that she felt 20 years younger : Lachesis LM3 , stopping the remedy , Lachesis 200 , Syphilinum LM1 and returning to Lachesis LM3 . |
26 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
27 | His grandmother , the Countess of Airlie , was such a close friend of the Queen 's grandmother , Queen Mary , that she spent fifty years as a lady-in-waiting . |
28 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
29 | Beestons , the Carltons and the Mansfields that we patrolled twenty years ago . |
30 | We do n't anticipate the same rate of increase that we saw last year , but we 'd be expecting probably somewhere in the region of a 10 to 15 per cent increase over the coming year . |