Example sentences of "i 've [verb] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see , this is it , the crunch , the bottom line , as they say — I 've lost ten years of my memory . |
| 2 | I just think to myself , ‘ Well , I 've survived twenty-six years of this , I 'll manage another twenty-six … . ’ |
| 3 | I 've waited six years already , remember . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've waited sixteen years to hear from my father and they can wait for as long as I can drag this thing out . |
| 5 | It 's just I 've , I 've done three years at university now and I , I |
| 6 | The nurses , two weeks ago I met nurses that I 've met three years ago at my surgery about regrading . |
| 7 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
| 8 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had six years experience in this market and have built up a high personal profile among clients , ’ he explains . |
| 10 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , I 've needed four years to get to this point so she could have all the time in the world as far as I was concerned . |
| 12 | I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 13 | I 've spent four years making very certain I do n't care . |
| 14 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 15 | I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned . |
| 16 | Now I 've spent seventeen years in Hartlepool and yes that er |
| 17 | Mrs Kavanagh 's claim can not be , because I 've spent 25 years editing , arranging and completing his work . |
| 18 | I 've got two years superannuation to come , and I 've saved a bit since I left home . |
| 19 | I 've got two years |
| 20 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 21 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 22 | I 'm twenty-one , I 've got three years here , I 'm going to give it everything . |