Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 2 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 3 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 4 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 5 | The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good . |
| 6 | And do children really do the same chemistry that I did twenty years ago ? |
| 7 | Before that I worked fifteen years for a international bank . |
| 8 | These remained and the following sequence over a month all proved ineffective although she commented that she felt 20 years younger : Lachesis LM3 , stopping the remedy , Lachesis 200 , Syphilinum LM1 and returning to Lachesis LM3 . |
| 9 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 10 | His grandmother , the Countess of Airlie , was such a close friend of the Queen 's grandmother , Queen Mary , that she spent fifty years as a lady-in-waiting . |
| 11 | Beestons , the Carltons and the Mansfields that we patrolled twenty years ago . |
| 12 | NATO will now restrict itself to only one nuclear system , as opposed to the Soviet Union — or Russia now — with three , and we in NATO can point to the fact that we will soon have about one tenth the number of nuclear warheads that we had 10 years ago . |
| 13 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 14 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 15 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 16 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 17 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 18 | Today a President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had thirty years ago , even in matters that affect national security . ’ |