Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [adj] 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 | The alleged offences started when the girls were then aged four years , three years and the youngest 11 months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And would you just would you do they food all the time that you were there for twenty years ? |
| 9 | In a proclamation issued at Ghent on 8 February 1340 , Edward declared that Philip of Valois had ‘ intruded himself by force into the kingdom while we were yet of tender years , and holds that kingdom against God and justice ’ . |
| 10 | Follow up was annually for five years and then less often for up to seven years four months . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 13 | His notebooks tell a rather more complex story , however , and it was only after several years of work that he eventually put together the idea of natural selection . |
| 14 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 15 | Mind you I was I was still on three years in in colours and and then I got nine years reserve to do after that . |
| 16 | The project was initially for three years , and will therefore run at least until 1993 . |
| 17 | I was there for two years . |
| 18 | After I was there for six years |
| 19 | I was there for twenty years . |
| 20 | I was there for twenty years . |
| 21 | Much more choleric than his brother — who was never in those years very far from outright rudeness — Wilson offended people , and important people , right and left . |