Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [prep] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if you 're doing me medicine , for the first couple of years you you 're just doing text book work are n't you , mostly ? |
| 2 | For the first couple of years I shared a flat with a friend , then my paternal grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy . |
| 3 | They ordered , sipped drinks , and Therese was conscious that it was the first time for years she had eaten a meal alone with a man . |
| 4 | ‘ Neither does anyone else , but of course Graham 's furious now that he 's started winning , because for the first time for years he could have set up some good contracts — and not least collected some commission on the bonuses paid by Hi-Flight . ’ |
| 5 | For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man . |
| 6 | It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali . |
| 7 | For the first time in years it is possible to walk around the whole building and experience it in three dimensions . |
| 8 | For the first time in years it was thick enough to bear . |
| 9 | For the first time in years she had someone she could rely on . |
| 10 | OVER the last number of years we , the Liverpool fans , have been accused by many ( including TTW&R ) of being obsessed with Manchester United . |
| 11 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 12 | but normally I ca n't sleep here I al I always admired anybody that could sleep with a for yea it 's only this last couple of years I can do it , no I mean I 'll doze . |
| 13 | I was happy as pop singer , the last couple of years I was n't happy when I ceased to be a pop singer and I was er headed on a road of being an entertainer . |
| 14 | Erm , leaving it too long , and now he 's as I say , last couple of years he 's been to se to see why it is he 's getting headaches and they say there 's no sight in that eye at all . |
| 15 | It used to be ‘ I 'm doing my law moderations ’ — he pursed his lips and wagged his head — ‘ but these last couple of years it 's been , ‘ I 'm reading for my finals ’ . |
| 16 | Erm see the last couple of years it 's changed again . |
| 17 | all of a sudden in the next couple of years you 've got to go through thousands of years of evolution . |