Example sentences of "twelve years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 2 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 3 | The sophistication exuded by a man twelve years her senior was no doubt part of the attraction for the Honourable Frances Roche , the daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy , who was an 1 8-year-old debutante when they first met . |
| 4 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 5 | If the spectacle of a woman well into her fifties in love with a man twelve years her junior is ridiculous , then they were ridiculous . |
| 6 | At twelve years there was another 2/6d . |
| 7 | Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course . |
| 8 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 9 | During the next twelve years he rose to the position of general manager , in charge of finance and personnel , and during this time established a reputation in the business community for ability and honest dealing . |
| 10 | For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay . |
| 11 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 12 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 13 | For twelve years I have wandered through |
| 14 | For twelve years I had greatly enjoyed being a guest of some of the members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on their championship links of Muirfield on the coast of East Lothian , where once or twice as a boy I had played with my grandfather . |
| 15 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 16 | Erm , nearly twelve years I think now , no must , must be more than that |
| 17 | For twelve years she was a member of the consumer watchdog for transport in London and Southern England . |
| 18 | He had formed her life , as for the last twelve years she had lived it , formed her every day by the acts of one extraordinary night . |
| 19 | And then , after twelve years she married him . |
| 20 | She was a mere twelve years his junior . |
| 21 | The respected Broadway actress Elizabeth Wilson , who was playing his mother , was twelve years his senior . |
| 22 | However , if this practice has persisted for more than twelve years it will have become what is known as a prescriptive right of way , and you will inherit it and not be able to do anything about it . |
| 23 | For the last twelve years it 's been a Conservative seat . |