Example sentences of "for [adj] years [conj] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | He used to come to and I was a member of Springbank for sixty years and er anything I can do Richard , you know . |
2 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
3 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
4 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
5 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
6 | Yes , this is another big problem I think you put that very well , that people forget , of course , that in clinical psychoan analysis the analyst has a vast amount of data , because the patient is going five times a week , or in Freud 's case , six times a week , for fifty minutes every day , six days a week , nine months of the year , often for several years and er , the , the sheer amount of data that the analyst gets , is absolutely immense . |
7 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
8 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
9 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
10 | NEW fixed-rate mortgages include 7.79% until January 1995 from Abbey National , and Cheltenham & Gloucester 's 7.5% fixed for two years or 8.75% set for five years . |