Example sentences of "seven years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 2 | ‘ For seven years we have been gypsies , wandering with no home . |
| 3 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |
| 4 | After remaining in the colony for seven years they can apply for a CI which is a more widely recognised travel document and enables them to become British Dependent Territory Citizens . |
| 5 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 6 | For seven years they 'd lived apart — Adam in Wickrithe with Gran , herself in Coniston with Aunt Sarah and Uncle Nick — but now that she was back in Wickrithe , helping Gran with her bed-and-breakfast business for the summer , it was as if there 'd been no break . |
| 7 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 8 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 9 | For seven years he would live in Bloomsbury , learning a trade from Daniel Jones of Broad Street , pawnbroker , silversmith and general salesman . |
| 10 | For seven years he did n't want anything else . |
| 11 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 12 | About seven years he says you can expect them to start going like then , you know and I |
| 13 | Over the last seven years she has worked as a manager in the retail industry in Oxford . |
| 14 | After seven years she says coping with them STILL is n't getting any easier . |
| 15 | Erm , you know she had this cancer seven years ago when she had her breast cancer and , had her breast taken off they 've now found it 's gone further in seven years she , you know , she was |
| 16 | And for nearly seven years she looked like an old woman of eighty . |
| 17 | ‘ For seven years you have borne Undry by your side ; since you left me , you have held it in your hands . |
| 18 | and it 's just been another seven years you 've been able to work |
| 19 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 20 | Erm but of course if you die within seven years it could indeed be added back into your estate so I think that they also build a certain amount of life insurance against that and essentially what you do is you you One of the schemes is you pay insurance against the amount of the tax bill seven years . |
| 21 | ‘ Every six or seven years it overruns the Humboldt . ’ |
| 22 | During the past seven years I 've worn fabric and plastic boots so my feet needed some encouragement to weather leather again . |
| 23 | For seven years I did n't see them . |
| 24 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 25 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 26 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 27 | Linebacker Gary Plummer said : ‘ We have n't given the fans a heck of a lot to cheer in the seven years I 've been here . |
| 28 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 29 | For the past seven years I have run a job share register on behalf of the British Paediatric Association . |
| 30 | In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last . |