Example sentences of "of [det] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 2 | ‘ And four of those bloody years I spend in a bloody prison-camp — if you 'll pardon the expression . |
| 3 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 4 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 5 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 6 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |