Example sentences of "nine years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nine years she was a postwoman in Berkshire and used to cycle 18 miles a day . |
| 2 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 3 | Oh so , over twenty nine years you 're saying that food was controlling your life , in a way ? |
| 4 | ‘ For nine years I have virtually lived with him . |
| 5 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 6 | I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years |
| 7 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 8 | In the nine years he remained at school his closest companions were to include Bob Allen , Val le Grice , and Thomas Middleton ; but no friend proved more lasting or dependable than the gifted , tongue-tied Charles Lamb , son of a minor official at the Inner Temple . |
| 9 | For the last nine years he has lived outside work time as a brunette , Diane , and has helped counsel others . |
| 10 | Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond . |
| 11 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |