Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |
| 2 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 3 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 4 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 6 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 7 | During this last year she was a finalist in the Woking Young Musician competition and won the Dr. Clifford Page Cup for the most outstanding instrumentalist at the Aldershot and Farnborough Festival . |
| 8 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 9 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 10 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 11 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 12 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 13 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 14 | This means that the three remaining days will be packed more tightly and although it is too late for this academic year we will in subsequent years have one day at the start of each term . |
| 15 | ‘ After this extraordinary year it is about time the nettle was grasped . |
| 16 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 17 | So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti . |
| 18 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
| 19 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 20 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 21 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 22 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 23 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 24 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 25 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 26 | After all these years I 'm definitely |
| 27 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
| 29 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 30 | After all these years he was still afraid . |