Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 2 | slag on it maybe er five or six years you get a heavy dose of slag . |
| 3 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 4 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
| 5 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
| 6 | But apparently smut has never been far away , and in recent years when some crops have been grown from home saved seed which has had no treatment , after two or three years it has appeared with devastating effect . |
| 7 | And this last two or three years I 've s I 've become to realize that how important acting and performing is to me , and h how much more there is to do in it . |
| 8 | Next came Cooder 's first real involvement with film-work ; over the next two or three years he produced soundtracks for The Long Riders , Southern Comfort and The Border . |
| 9 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman followed that matter with any care , he would know that over the past four or five years we have steadily improved and made more generous the cold weather payments . |
| 11 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |
| 12 | four or five years I think |
| 13 | Erm but I 've had to give it all up because I 'm too busy , so I do n't run it from anywhere now , but for the last er four or five years it 's been from the Hotel . |
| 14 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 15 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 16 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
| 17 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Mainly for where it 's lived for the last three or four years I think . |
| 19 | Yeah that 's and it 's got worse in the last twenty or thirty years it 's got much worse I think . |
| 20 | For Sidonius the immediate result was exile , but after one or two years he did return , and lived out his life as bishop , albeit harassed by his own clergy , until the late 480s . |
| 21 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |
| 22 | ‘ Every six or seven years it overruns the Humboldt . ’ |
| 23 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 24 | Even after more than fifty years they have not been fully appreciated by many philosophers , and are still the subject of much controversy . |
| 25 | For more than 50 years I have nurtured what might be called an insatiable interest in China and the arts , crafts , and accomplishments of the Chinese people , the oldest extant civilization on earth . |
| 26 | After more than ten years he decided that it was time he retrieved some of the money , so from 1921 to 1923 he put the wages of his chauffeur on Arsenal 's expense account and in 1926 charged the club £125 for hiring , over two years , a motor car . |
| 27 | Cos Dave 's been out the country like ehm , well it 's just under ten years , and if he stays out longer than ten years he loose , he loose his citizenship . |
| 28 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 29 | For more than twenty years you have advised me to be cautious , to consider the full implications of my actions , but now , suddenly , you counsel me to rashness . ’ |
| 30 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |