Example sentences of "of years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needed to be , with a different corps every couple of years once they became officers and a new baby born every eighteen months or so . |
| 2 | Parents usually keep their children at home for a couple of years after they have completed their six years of compulsory education . |
| 3 | For a number of years after he ascended the throne he remained highly deferential to gentry concerns . |
| 4 | Oh that was there for years , donkey 's years when , I can remember when I was at school , going to school and it was still there quite a number of years after I left school . |
| 5 | The various pros and cons have been discussed and highlighted in the Journal over the last couple of years so I will not repeat them , although printing costs of the vouchers must be very high compared with a ‘ one off card ’ . |
| 6 | Because we 've also been told we 're probably going to lose our jobs in a couple of years unless we 're prepared to move to Glasgow . |
| 7 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 8 | And I 'm disappointed that councillor is talking about a matter of years before we get something done about this . |
| 9 | If not , he warned : ‘ It could be a couple of years before we even get into the courtroom itself and no-one can say how long the case will run . ’ |
| 10 | It could take a number of years before we get them all on A L O courses and in fact there 's no way w I assume there 's no way we can put them on A L O courses til they 've done a crime prevention course at Is that right David ? |
| 11 | They spent thousands of years before they could understand fractions |
| 12 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 13 | Clare and Southall a couple of years before she died , age 20 . |
| 14 | If you were aged 40 or more in 1978 , multiply by the number of years before you will be 60 , the state retirement age . |
| 15 | Erm I , I suppose it 'll be a couple of years before he does that but |
| 16 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 17 | The behaviour of privatised industries will have to be studied over a number of years before it is possible to conclude whether the ownership of the company ( ie private or public ) or the market structure ( ie competitive or monopolistic ) is the major determinant of corporate behaviour . |
| 18 | Barry had also composed the music for The Knack , and raised the idea for Billy with producer Peter Witt over lunch a couple of years before it materialized . |
| 19 | Ooh now that started before we took out the mortgage , about a couple of years before I think . |
| 20 | took me a lot of years before I could and I was so pleased when once I was able to say to you I 've Ben had been in the shop and we 'd had a chat had n't we ? |
| 21 | During the millions of years since they first made their appearance , at least a hundred species of Proboscidea have come and gone . |
| 22 | It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know . |
| 23 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 24 | We 've done relatively well in the past couple of years because we 've had a lot of petrol pumps , because of the new , the opening of the big supermar the , the supermarkets where there 's thirty , forty pumps go going , we make a fair bit of money in that way . |
| 25 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 26 | Wordsworth produced quantities of verse in the next forty-three years : I stress the exact number of years because it amounts to over half his lifetime , and certainly to two-thirds of his poetic existence . |