Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] years and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data . |
| 2 | The Group operated quite effectively for several years and was responsible for the production of approximately two-dozen tape-slides concerned with bibliographic instruction . |
| 3 | He had lain wakeful beside Anna in the bed that had not been quite wide enough for twenty years and felt himself to be all at once boiling with misery and quite immobilized by it . |
| 4 | Follow up was annually for five years and then less often for up to seven years four months . |
| 5 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 7 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 8 | We 've lived together for eight years and have two children ? |
| 9 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 10 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |
| 11 | As you yourself said , on Sunday , we have acted together for ten years and never had a quarrel , although we have had many a grave difference on questions of policy . |
| 12 | She had smoked one pack of cigarettes daily for six years and was taking no medication . |
| 13 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 14 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they develop . |
| 15 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they change . |
| 16 | Parallel with this tunnel is the more modern railway tunnel , though ‘ more modern ’ only by twelve years and the substitution of a steam locomotive for horsepower . |
| 17 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 18 | Thus for many years and in many lands this great bandmaster was known as John Philip Sousa . |
| 19 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 20 | Leslie Thomas , a leader of a gang that organised acid house parties in London , was jailed at the Old Bailey yesterday for five years and three months after being convicted in his absence of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 21 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 22 | Laurencekirk has another of those long , long streets ; home for four years and by then long gone , of Thomas Ruddiman the grammarian , mentioned by Boswell and admired by Johnson . |
| 23 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
| 24 | THE Jordanian Prime Minister , Mr Mudar Badran , wooing the newly elected parliament , lifted martial law yesterday after 22 years and promised to fight corruption . |
| 25 | Those which are being discarded , usually after 30 years and around 750,000 miles ( 1,200,000 km ) of service , are sold at £8,000 each and go on to another life overseas . |
| 26 | This has meant a fall in the demand for residential care which had been increasing rapidly in previous years and it is the duty of the relevant authorities to plan future provision er so that everything will work smoothly for those most in need . |
| 27 | CARLO de Benedetti , chairman of the Olivetti group , was sentenced yesterday to six years and four months in jail for his part in the fraudulent collapse of Roberto Calvi 's Banco Ambrosiano . |
| 28 | Whereas Nigeria followed the classic pattern of building large plants with the latest equipment , and then suffering from overcapacity , Togo has been operating a mini-mill profitably for some years and has begun to export to neighbouring countries , even those with large , underused plants of their own . |
| 29 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman recognises that increasing productivity in agriculture has been a feature in the past , both in good years and in bad . |
| 30 | It led to a dialogue with Montefiore , with my telling him about my friend who has had AIDS now for six years and who , thanks to AZT , is still alive . |