Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 2 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 3 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 4 | It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’ |
| 5 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 6 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |