Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] years [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
| 2 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 3 | it depended on what the particular er problem was at the time , if something failed after four or five years it was then covered by insurance by the N H B C or by guarantees |
| 4 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 5 | The first twelve months or two years it was very good . |
| 6 | Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow copied his machine in 1846 and passed on the details to so many people that for more than fifty years he was generally regarded as the inventor of the bicycle . |
| 7 | So after less than three years it was removed to Cleveland Lodge in Great Ayton which was the home of John Pease . |
| 8 | For more than thirty years he was president of the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol . |
| 9 | I mean if you were n't in at whe when you were in your third and fourth year , it was a four year er training , er in third and fourth years you were allowed to stay out till ten o'clock at night . |