Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 2 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 3 | Allen and Farrow , who never married , were together for 12 years before splitting up in January 1992 . |
| 4 | The you said , that you were away for six years . |
| 5 | An extreme example is bracken , Pteridium aquilinum ; Oinonen ( 1967 ) showed that individual clones in Finland were up to 1440 years old and one old clone extended over an area of 474 × 292 m . |
| 6 | Which were n't in thirty years ago . |
| 7 | The alleged offences started when the girls were then aged four years , three years and the youngest 11 months . |
| 8 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
| 9 | It was th it was erm , a lot of the nurses were there for two years before they went to get th into the General Hospital training . |
| 10 | And would you just would you do they food all the time that you were there for twenty years ? |
| 11 | Follow up was annually for five years and then less often for up to seven years four months . |
| 12 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 13 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 14 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 15 | It was not till fourteen years later that Rospigliosi produced his second comic opera , Dal Male il Bene , of which Marazzoli composed only the Second Act . |
| 16 | It was not until thirty years after Anselm that Archbishop Theobald began to build up an administrative staff necessary for the dual organization of ecclesiastical and secular affairs along the lines which became familiar in the later Middle Ages . |
| 17 | judgement was in favour of Aston Villa and it was not until fifty years later that a fresh legal challenge over contract terms was made , by George Eastham against Newcastle United . |
| 18 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 19 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 20 | It was not until five years had elapsed that track lifting began in earnest , and this was only in fits and starts . |
| 21 | She gave birth in 1970 to a boy whom she named Caleb James , but it was not until five years later that she said Nicholson was the father . |
| 22 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 23 | It was not until five years after the exhibition that one of John Bowes ' jewellery advisors informed the excited couple the Swan was for sale . |
| 24 | The College 's first Principal ( or Professor , as he and his more immediate successors were called ) published his first proposals for a veterinary school in England in 1788 , but it was not until two years later that he made contact with the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 25 | It was not until two years later , however , that Clark accepted Chapman 's offer to join the team . |
| 26 | It was not until forty years later that Betty changed jobs when a new drying machine was introduced changing the system . |
| 27 | Despite Saint-Simon 's extraordinary prominence , it was not until 30 years after his death in 1826 that two of his disciples , the brothers Jacob and Isaac Pereire , established the first entrepreneurial bank , the Crédit Mobilier , and ushered in what we now call ‘ finance capitalism . ’ |
| 28 | I had agreed to be co-author , but it was not until seven years after his retirement that work could begin , for only then had his committee activities abated to an extent which allowed the long periods necessary for writing and discussion . |
| 29 | But it was not until ten years later that Jack discovered she was his mother . |
| 30 | Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent . |