Example sentences of "that i [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library
2 When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist .
3 When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist .
4 ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’
5 For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry .
6 The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good .
7 And do children really do the same chemistry that I did twenty years ago ?
8 Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago .
9 Before that I worked fifteen years for a international bank .
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