Example sentences of "of [adj] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 2 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 3 | As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read . |
| 4 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 5 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |