Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 2 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 3 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 5 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 6 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 7 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 8 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 9 | During the seven years I was at McKinsey , I never saw a client that seemed to care so much about its people . ’ |
| 10 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
| 11 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 12 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have had to be flexible and open minded on selection for all of the six-and-a-half years I have had this job , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 14 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 15 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 16 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 17 | In the five years I played with Mayall , there was Hughie Flint , Aynsley Dunbar , Micky Waller , Mick Fleetwood and then Keef Hartley . |
| 18 | ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’ |
| 19 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 20 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 21 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 22 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 23 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 24 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 25 | In the 27 years I have worked at the airport , sixteen of those in the fire service , I have seen a huge increase in the number of flights . |
| 26 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 27 | We have , in the two years I 've been here , we have got a depth of talent in our staff that 's hard to believe . |
| 28 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
| 29 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 30 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |