Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 2 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 3 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 4 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 5 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 6 | Tom joined the AEA police at Sellafield in 1969 and then transferred to Chapelcross in 1974 , where he completed 18 years service . |
| 7 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 8 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 9 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 10 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 11 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 12 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
| 13 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 14 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 15 | Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop . |
| 16 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 17 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 18 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 19 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 20 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 21 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm disappointed with the criticism I got , stuff like I looked light years away from Tyson , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm disappointed with the criticism I got , stuff like I looked light years away from Tyson , ’ he said . |
| 24 | cos I worked two years all the time I had a few bob for that extra that 's all . |
| 25 | Sarah had nursed her mother until she died two years ago . |
| 26 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 27 | And the theory was that if you served thirty years in the Ce Central African police , you 'd be given a section of land in what later became Rhodesia . |
| 28 | Yeah , well Mike it comes down to experience if they had five years of |
| 29 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 30 | Formerly Associate Technical Director , he was with the Institute for 33 years until he retired four years ago |