Example sentences of "six years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre . |
| 2 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 3 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 4 | For six years they have transformed half an acre of bleak Cotswold cottage garden into a celebration of vibrancy . |
| 5 | For the past six years they 've spent time perfecting the revolutionary 3.6 litre , 32 valve , V8 engine . |
| 6 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 7 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 8 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 9 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 10 | During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties . |
| 11 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 12 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 13 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 14 | In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party . |
| 15 | During the next six years he published over two hundred books , his imprint receiving Book Society accolades and design awards and sustaining more posthumous interest and admiration than any other mainstream publisher of that period . |
| 16 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 17 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 18 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 19 | For six years he worked in Australia . |
| 20 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 21 | Six years he opening a small foundry at the back . |
| 22 | ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’ |
| 23 | If his fortunes improve over the next six years you are still entitled to collect on your judgement debt . |
| 24 | For six years you wander the desert |
| 25 | slag on it maybe er five or six years you get a heavy dose of slag . |
| 26 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 27 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
| 28 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 29 | Six years I 've had that . |
| 30 | There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce . |