Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 2 | The end result is that pupils switch off any interest in the school , and how they manage to go through five years of their school years still amazes me . |
| 3 | Deciding that you want to go out with someone because they happen to fit into this year 's idea of what is good looking is stupid . |
| 4 | but now and again there 's some like erm sub-circuits or whatever , sub programming that you 'll appear right there 's Mermaid Towers right , you appear and you get trapped for seven years listening to this old man |
| 5 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 6 | I get married about eleven years ago , it was four of us , me and my , the groom and two witnesses . |
| 7 | One event may thus produce a multitude of effects that continue to reverberate for many years . |
| 8 | These pricing formulas will ensure that prices continue to rise for several years : in Northumbria , for example , prices could more than double by the mid-1990s . |
| 9 | Very best wishes to you and we hope you keep painting for many years to come . |
| 10 | The origins of the Norfolk Broads have only become known in recent years . |
| 11 | know about a and therefore it 's only things that start to creep in this year . |
| 12 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 13 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 14 | A hundred and fifty films , television and video productions they 've attracted in four years . |
| 15 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 16 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 17 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 18 | Give you an analysis of your client bank , it 'll tell you how many you 've seen this year , how many you 've seen in two years , three years , four years , and it frightens the senior associates who have got maybe eight hundred , a thousand clients , and it said , seen in the last four years , and it 's got twenty . |
| 19 | Moving to page three , is the revised estimates for your Committee for the current year , and you 'll see there , the format is somewhat to the one you 've seen in future years , we have had |
| 20 | well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years . |
| 21 | It was as bad as I 've seen in 60 years . ’ |
| 22 | I 've said to many years now about English weather in a sense it 's , it , it , it 's got a something of endearing quality , you do n't like going through the bad weather , but the fact is that we do get generally good weather |
| 23 | And for someone in my position to make a jump from one thing to another and to be feeling better than I 've felt in ten years , feeling like I 'm at the top of my game creatively at the moment , must mean that I 've grown in the making of this album . |
| 24 | The inquiry focussed on the deaths of four young addicts picked as a cross section of the scores who 've died in recent years . |
| 25 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 26 | I 've got a pewter-coloured Strat Plus which I 've had for two years now . |
| 27 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 28 | And the pain I 've had for three years was far worse . |
| 29 | It 's more than we 've had in recent years , judging by the general |
| 30 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |