Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be only eight years before he becomes King William V. But unlike his father , he will be well equipped for another role — that of partner and parent . |
| 2 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 3 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 4 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 5 | She 's been at my side for so many years that it 's more than just a business relationship . |
| 6 | It is not so many years since it broke away . ’ |
| 7 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 8 | Do n't accept a wood treatment guarantee as proof that infestation has been eliminated ; reinfestation has been found rife in a roof space only five years after it had been treated . |
| 9 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 10 | Although it 's only two years since they began acquiring the magazines , there are now so many that the bulk must remain in storage . |
| 11 | It 's only two years since they were shocked by the couple 's secret wedding in America . |
| 12 | Can it really be only two years since he was taking 4 for 36 for England against the Windward Islands ? |
| 13 | So two years after they married and as the couple face divorce , Isabelle Duchesnay is a sadder and wiser woman , aware now that she would always have come second to his work in her husband 's affections and that , because of her role in Chris 's life , Jayne Torvill turned into the spectre at the feast . |
| 14 | Big Pit closed as a working colliery in 1980 , exactly 100 years after it first produced coal . |
| 15 | It is already sixteen years since we left London specifically to help put Norfolk on the map in the Medau world . |
| 16 | it is , it 's exactly ten years although I reckon like , well , the thing is , these like late bookers like Richard was saying the other day , the flight ones , you du n no where your going |
| 17 | Outside the courtroom , one of the defendants , Elizabeth Brimelow , a former director and head of compliance of County NatWest , said : ‘ Only a judge could say it is too soon two-and-a-half years after you were arrested . ’ |
| 18 | Later when Sophie remarked to no one in particular , ‘ Imagine , it is already five years since we was sitting here in Paris — ’ Lily said : |
| 19 | In the October of 1855 Sarah returned to London , just five years after she had left her baby to be cared for in the Foundling Hospital . |
| 20 | Sir Eric Ash was appointed Rector of Imperial in 1985 , almost exactly 40 years after he first stepped through its doors as a 17-year-old undergraduate . |
| 21 | Figure 5 is the PAS-score trajectory for Lowndes Queensway , the second largest furniture and carpet retailer in the UK , which went into administrative receivership in August 1990 , exactly two years after it was formed from a £450M leverage buy-out . |
| 22 | Part-time cleaner Betty Woods , 60 , paid full contributions for just four years before she wed Ron , 62 . |
| 23 | If you gave your money away seven years before you died you paid no tax . |
| 24 | FOUR US marines were laid to rest in Virginia nearly 26 years after they were killed in Vietnam . |
| 25 | It was nearly six years since I first met the people of Sabra and Shatila . |
| 26 | It 's nearly three years since I started writing , I have n't got |
| 27 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 28 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 29 | ‘ Footballers at the top used to be finished between 28 and 30 but you can prolong your playing life by nearly ten years if you look after yourself . |
| 30 | ‘ It took us nearly ten years and we had to jump through massive hoops . |