Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years before i " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
2 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
3 | I can well believe that at home I was going through some such process for many years before I became anorexic , as well as during the course of the disease itself . |
4 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
5 | I was in , I was in the industry for thirty years before I realized or find out that it 's an Arabian craft . |
6 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |