Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 2 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 3 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 4 | I mean after thirty years of policies our own real economy is shambles , growing unemployment . |
| 5 | You know , our policies are working , I mean after thirteen years |
| 6 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 7 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 8 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 9 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 10 | As a matter of fact you are the first visitor to come to the cottage since I moved in two years ago . ’ |
| 11 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 12 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 13 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 14 | To Major Patti he stated ( in excellent English ) , ‘ I put in fifteen years of service to the Party and I believe I paid my debt . |
| 15 | ‘ I studied for five years at the Physical Education Academy , so I could go back to Poland and be a school teacher . |
| 16 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 17 | I noticed in recent years these practices becoming more lax , which was supported in some ways by both students and staff , who felt an increased sense of freedom . |
| 18 | by the time I hope to four years |
| 19 | The first weekend in September should be a closed date and I hope in future years the folly of playing games on national finals day will not be repeated . |
| 20 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 21 | And erm then after erm I had done my training as nun , I did teacher training , and I taught for twenty years , before becoming a social worker . |
| 22 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 23 | I taught for 29 years at a boy 's school and I was very aware of young people who are now serving prison sentences for crimes relating to the troubles . |
| 24 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 25 | I served for two years , 18 months of which where in Egypt , during the so called Middle East Crisis , where it was not unusual to be sniped at , almost daily , by an unseen enemy who did n't always miss . |
| 26 | Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans . |
| 27 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
| 28 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 29 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 30 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |