Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 2 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 3 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 4 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 5 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 6 | You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! |
| 7 | At Petworth , Lord Egremont instituted a ‘ voluntary ’ emigration policy , ‘ shovelling out paupers ’ which set people up in a new life in Canada , 1456 of them in five years . |
| 8 | For one moment Isambard was caught off-guard , but he had lived in and trained and trusted that hard old body of his for sixty years , and in emergencies his very muscles thought for him . |
| 9 | ‘ We have heard of you for many years . |
| 10 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 11 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 12 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 13 | I am doubtful ; I suggest that we have all just become more aware of it in recent years , more ready to take it into new forms . |
| 14 | Sultry looks had been a speciality of hers for some years , so much so that Matthew sometimes wondered whether she practised them in front of a mirror for ten minutes each day . |
| 15 | There 's one teacher , he seems to have had a personal interest in each one of us for five years . |
| 16 | ‘ Outrageous ! ’ was the cry ; ‘ We 've always had our Medau here — Some of us for twenty years ! ’ |
| 17 | This famous five have experienced the spectrum of emotions stirred up in many of us by last year 's frightening food-related newspaper headlines . |
| 18 | Many of us in middle years of life have experienced the pain of such loss : few of us have experienced multiple losses , sometimes in quick succession , except in times of war ; none of us have yet had to accept that those losses , of our own generation , signify the beginning of the end for us . |