Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] years " 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 | Tom joined the AEA police at Sellafield in 1969 and then transferred to Chapelcross in 1974 , where he completed 18 years service . |
| 7 | And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library |
| 8 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 9 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 10 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And do children really do the same chemistry that I did twenty years ago ? |
| 14 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 15 | Before that I worked fifteen years for a international bank . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Beestons , the Carltons and the Mansfields that we patrolled twenty years ago . |
| 21 | We offer the other hand , and eventually a life line is discovered , although it 's so short it appears that we died several years ago . |
| 22 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
| 23 | NATO will now restrict itself to only one nuclear system , as opposed to the Soviet Union — or Russia now — with three , and we in NATO can point to the fact that we will soon have about one tenth the number of nuclear warheads that we had 10 years ago . |
| 24 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 25 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 26 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 27 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 28 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
| 29 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 30 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |