Example sentences of "year and [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 2 | Many in the farming industry say the current system has survived well for seventy years and they see little reason for changing it . |
| 3 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 4 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 5 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 6 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 7 | The Chinese , for their part , needed reliable intelligence on conditions in Vietnam — some genuine Vietnamese support , too , if they could get it — but not simply that which was promised by émigrés who had lived in China for years and who had little or no contact with or contemporary knowledge of Vietnam . |
| 8 | Please find enclosed letters from two members of the Parish Council who have lived in the area for many years and who have personal knowledge of the situation with regard to this route . |
| 9 | There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 12 | I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 13 | Lord Mayor , I 've only been brought up under the National Health Service for thirty two years and I feel sorry for that poor doctor . |
| 14 | ‘ I have aged about 20 years and I feel exhausted . |
| 15 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 16 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 17 | Despite archaeological discoveries which are still being made year by year and which throw more light upon the Etruscan civilisation , knowledge of these people , their origins , their way of life is still far from complete . |
| 18 | This is reflected in the fairs , festivals and sports events which are held throughout the year and which attract many sightseers . |
| 19 | ‘ In summary , we have made substantial progress at the half year and we expect this positive trend to be maintained . |
| 20 | These were two ex-marines , one of whom had led the trek the previous year and who answered endless questions . |
| 21 | Audrey Gray , a single mother of three , was quick to point out that Father Christmas would not be calling on her children this year and she had firm views on who was to blame . |
| 22 | New components are added every year and it remains one of the most comprehensive and effective courses available . |
| 23 | About 20,000 people visit the museum each year and it houses some of the finest examples of railway memorabilia . |
| 24 | In 1912 ordinary subscriptions still brought in only £12000 a year and it proved difficult to raise them to anything like what was needed . |
| 25 | This type of government aid , which controls the market price , helps farmers to decide which crops or livestock to produce each year and it prevents sudden , unexpected disasters . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
| 27 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 28 | As Pat told me : ‘ One film a year and he paid all his tax . |