Example sentences of "[conj] [num] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T R E company Molecule theatre which came originally from the Mermaid in They came here two or three times a year for seven or eight years and we use to pack 'em out . |
| 2 | He painted them both five or six years before he died . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's probably only the past two or three years that I started to feel comfortable with myself . |
| 4 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 5 | But I do n't remember when that idea took over ; probably two or three years after I started working with Basil . |
| 6 | with two or three years before you really know what 's going on |
| 7 | This has been the most fastest growing part of the holiday taking in this country over the past two or three years and I 'm hoping it will continue and so does our industry — in other words the hotels and accommodation , the tourist attractions — all are hoping , you know , that people are going to continue to do this erm and I think this may apply to certain sectors of the community erm and we just hope that that will grow . |
| 8 | ‘ But he has kept goal exceptionally well , not only this season but for two or three years and it would be unwise for me not to look at him . ’ |
| 9 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 10 | And he said : ‘ I 've been in a state of panic on a snooker table at various times during the past two or three years because I knew I was n't playing well . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been another 17 or 18 years before we could have had this vote again and I would have lost my chance . ’ |
| 12 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 13 | The safety recommendations again at the end of the official AIB report reflect this longer term view and , bearing in mind the fact that modern large public transport aircraft are now being used for fifteen or twenty years before they are discarded , the implementation of these recommendations is clearly of the highest importance . |
| 14 | Perhaps the oak would lay there for three or four years before we used it . |
| 15 | The Left now completely rejected MacDonald 's concept of " gradualism " which had not been subjected to searching criticism until some three or four years before he left the party . |
| 16 | Must be about three or four years since I 've been in there . |
| 17 | We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work . |
| 18 | No we 'd only had it three or four years when we went to Malton and Pam said then ooh if ever you get rid of this just let me know , it 's just right for me cos she 's only short is n't she ? |
| 19 | What will your future be like , say , six months or two years after you have achieved your goal ? |
| 20 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 21 | To help their children benefit from schooling , parents need to understand what happens in school , to appreciate that methods of teaching have changed in the 15 or 20 years since they were themselves pupils in an infant or junior classroom . |
| 22 | This country has not faced such a decision in the past 300 or 400 years and I hope that we never shall . |
| 23 | Er about er what would it be about six or seven years after I left Skerrymor it went on fire . |
| 24 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 25 | Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health . |
| 26 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 27 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 28 | Carno Station , a Victorian granite relic of an earlier railway age , had been closed to passengers on 4 June 1965 , a little more than 100 years after it opened , and was now for sale . |
| 29 | Kingfisher 's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons . |
| 30 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |