Example sentences of "twelve years [pers pn] " 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 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | For twelve years I have wandered through |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 11 | Erm , nearly twelve years I think now , no must , must be more than that |
| 12 | For twelve years she was a member of the consumer watchdog for transport in London and Southern England . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And then , after twelve years she married him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For the last twelve years it 's been a Conservative seat . |