Example sentences of "[adj] years [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 2 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 3 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 4 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
| 5 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 6 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 7 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 8 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 9 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 10 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 11 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
| 12 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 13 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 14 | Five years you 've been at it now ; you should be a concert pianist , and you would be if you had practised . ’ |
| 15 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 16 | Erm but I 've had to give it all up because I 'm too busy , so I do n't run it from anywhere now , but for the last er four or five years it 's been from the Hotel . |
| 17 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 18 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 19 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 20 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |