Example sentences of "[prep] [num] year [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 2 | KELLY EMBERG After six years together she won £7,000 a month palimony |
| 3 | After three years there I was head-hunted by a marketing agency , D. F. & L. Associates , which was based just north of the City . |
| 4 | After five years when it seems it has been written , rewritten , proof read etc , I have now run out of answers . |
| 5 | He raged : ‘ I 'm hurt and angry that after five years here I heard I was sacked on my car radio . ’ |
| 6 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 7 | His study was interrupted after two years when he was posted abroad and he rejoined OU three years ago . |
| 8 | But as I say he was the most conscientious removal man and after two years when he came in he was so upset . |
| 9 | Ed Stafford , 37 , had bee married for six years when he divorced in 1982 . |
| 10 | ‘ For six years now we 've had two political groups , the High-Heels and the Low-Heels . |
| 11 | She 's wanted to be a doctor for six years now she 's decided |
| 12 | He himself had been an American citizen for twenty-eight years when he replied otherwise to the adjutant 's inquiry . |
| 13 | Leonard Coote , President has a record of service to the Association extending back in excess of 30 years when he was first elected a branch representative . |
| 14 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 15 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 16 | KONICA Rejects got their hands on the Glaslyn Cup competed for at Porthmadog after a break of 16 years when they beat Harry 's Bluebirds in a penalty shoot-out in a dramatic final . |
| 17 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 18 | Since that time Art has developed and flourished remarkably in the West Riding , and instead of the lurid paintings of twenty years ago we now have sensitive work stimulated by experience of the environment . |
| 19 | Of the Irish contingent , The Committee on recent form stands out but if Cahervillahow were to recapture if only fleetingly the form of two years ago you need look no further for the winner . |
| 20 | Before the right hon. Gentleman issues a denial , will he confirm that before the previous election the Tories said that they would continue to pay child benefit as before — only to freeze it immediately for three years when they took office ? |
| 21 | I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school . |
| 22 | For three years now we had moved stealthily through the darkness , sometimes absurdly confident , sometimes terrified , but always wondering just what sort of man it was that we heard creeping along the wall towards us and what sort of weapon he had in his hand . |
| 23 | For instance , if the interviewer is carrying out an interview with an old inhabitant of a village to try to find out what the community life was like 50 years ago he will probably have a set of categories for enquiry . |
| 24 | The fact is now I mean where like two years ago she was taking two and three exams at a time . |
| 25 | For 17 years now he has been hovering — camera at the ready — on the edge of parties , outside nightclubs or in restaurant doorways . |
| 26 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 27 | Arthur Skyrne was 59 and had been on the dole for ten years when he joined Roseberry ; now he is site safety officer and one of the directors of the company . |
| 28 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 29 | Mike Mahoney , Newcastle 's director of rugby , set the target of promotion to Division One in three years when he moved into the Kingston Park hot seat . |
| 30 | Gloucester18 Bath27 BATH reached the final of the cup for the seventh time in nine years when they scored two tries in the last five minutes of extra-time at Kingsholm and Stuart Barnes converted both of them from the touchline . |