Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] years and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It took us nearly ten years and we had to jump through massive hoops . |
| 2 | He worked there for nearly 40 years and it was in their Stockholm laboratories that he immediately took up Paneth and Peters ' idea . |
| 3 | I 've worked with her now for nearly two years and I think she 'd do an excellent job . |
| 4 | I have lived here for nearly eighteen years and I have been accepted by the local community . |
| 5 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 6 | And he 's been there now about three years and they 're just surviving , and he 's says , I 'm earning roughly what I was here but I 'm working literally twice the hours . |
| 7 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 8 | about three years and it has bled a couple of times . |
| 9 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 10 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 11 | They were together for about two-and-a-half years and he is her son Sean 's father . |
| 12 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been a Lions fan for about 15 years and it 's great to see the look on the tourists ’ faces when I walk around Bangkok in my ‘ No One Likes Us We Do n't Care ’ T-shirt , ’ wrote Mr Barrett . |
| 14 | And it 's quite true , I was there about four years and they always took stock before January the first , so that after Christmas came an anomaly , we 'd had a Christmas holiday and gone back to work . |
| 15 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 16 | I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 17 | Those people have lived here for about two years and they 'll still say ‘ I 've got to go home because my old man wants his dinner . ’ |
| 18 | I have been resident here for about two years and I have always drunk water from available streams and will continue to do so without any ill effects . |
| 19 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 20 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 21 | ‘ I have aged about 20 years and I feel exhausted . |
| 22 | We have been here 30 years and I do n't want to give up the No 10 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official . |
| 24 | ‘ I just told him I had n't won an Oscar for almost forty years and it was about time , that 's all . |
| 25 | He faces a possible prison term of at least 10 years and it 's driving his mother crazy with worry . |
| 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 | Ronnie had been in F1 since 1971 , he was recognized as one of the sport 's quickest ever drivers , he had given Lotus four years of loyal service during relatively lean years and he thought he thoroughly deserved the reward when Lotus came good . |
| 28 | There has been some form of settlement in Humbleton for at least 900 years and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Humeltone . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've worked with Winston for around 20 years and I still ca n't believe what has happened . |
| 30 | This process was one that we 'd enjoyed the public inquiry process for over fifty years and it would be most helpful if the minister at some point in his er later remarks perhaps could take this opportunity to tell the house that the Conservatives do not intend to side step the public inquiry stage of any future boundary proposals , European or I 'd be glad to give up . |