Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 2 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 3 | Next came Cooder 's first real involvement with film-work ; over the next two or three years he produced soundtracks for The Long Riders , Southern Comfort and The Border . |
| 4 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 5 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 6 | For Sidonius the immediate result was exile , but after one or two years he did return , and lived out his life as bishop , albeit harassed by his own clergy , until the late 480s . |
| 7 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 8 | For the next fourteen frustrating and hazardous years he survived , far-sighted and unembittered , until he finally achieved his ambition . |
| 9 | If this is between one and four years he suggested the safest route is a simple building society deposit account . |
| 10 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |