Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom .
2 Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know .
3 He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years .
4 yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years .
5 He was called Chip and he stayed with me for around eight years .
6 Houghton has worked with them for nearly three years but at times still feels like a stranger .
7 I had not seen them for over two years .
8 I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas .
9 Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years .
10 You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years .
11 WHEN people digest the high living styles of star England cricketers like David Gower and Ian Botham , the inference is that I must be well off too , having played alongside them for so many years .
12 they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon
13 Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt .
14 I 've worked with him for nearly two years .
15 That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years .
16 Watkins probably heard mention of these ideas , the seeds from which may have lain dormant in him for over fifty years .
17 He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate .
18 She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years .
19 I 'm not very good with people and , even though Eric is my brother , I have n't seen him for over two years , since he went crazy .
20 Sam 's cousin , Debbie went out with him for over six years .
21 Milton Humason who worked with him for over 30 years called him a ‘ brilliant leader ’ and wrote , ‘ He was sure of himself — of what he wanted to do , and of how to do it . ’
22 Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’
23 She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years .
24 She had n't seen him for almost five years and yet — less than twenty-four hours later — she 'd been not only happily returning his kisses , but also moaning with pleasure at the feel of his hands on her body .
25 Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour .
26 As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie .
27 ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends .
28 I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends .
29 I was very , very sorry , but I just left the letter around and did n't see him for about three years .
30 She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years .
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