Example sentences of "a [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 2 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 3 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
| 4 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 5 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |
| 6 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |