Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [conj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernest Saunders , the former chairman of the brewing and distilling company Guinness plc , had been convicted on Aug. 27 on two charges of conspiring to contravene the 1958 Prevention of Fraud ( Investments ) Act , on eight charges of false accounting and on two charges of theft , and was sentenced on Aug. 28 to two concurrent terms of five years and 3@1\2 years respectively . |
| 2 | He used to come to and I was a member of Springbank for sixty years and er anything I can do Richard , you know . |
| 3 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 4 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 5 | which only in future years that er , it 's added up to er significant point |
| 6 | I you know how conservative I am with figures and er with advising you as to what may occur I 'm myself relatively confident that erm we shall meet our ticket sales target by the year end and that there will be no as there as there 's been in previous years since er the aforementioned not to be noted er crisis . |
| 7 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 8 | Er car boot sales chairman have been erm increasing steadily in recent years and er in terms of number and er Hertfordshire are no longer the charitable events . |
| 9 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 10 | What I was going to say yeah I 've been involved in a lot of videos over recent years and erm central er and there 's a freelance budget which a caravan for central they usually charge about three or four thousand pounds depending on how long the video is |
| 11 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 12 | Yes , this is another big problem I think you put that very well , that people forget , of course , that in clinical psychoan analysis the analyst has a vast amount of data , because the patient is going five times a week , or in Freud 's case , six times a week , for fifty minutes every day , six days a week , nine months of the year , often for several years and er , the , the sheer amount of data that the analyst gets , is absolutely immense . |
| 13 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 14 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
| 15 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 16 | NEW fixed-rate mortgages include 7.79% until January 1995 from Abbey National , and Cheltenham & Gloucester 's 7.5% fixed for two years or 8.75% set for five years . |