Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years [subord] we " in BNC.

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1 Local authority expenditure during the 12 years since we took office has risen by 26 per cent .
2 ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said .
3 ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said .
4 For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college .
5 In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang .
6 Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in .
7 As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen …
8 The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent .
9 I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms .
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