Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years [pers pn] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 2 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 3 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 4 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 5 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 6 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 7 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 8 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 9 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 10 | In the three years I 've been here , and because C&P was one of the first ICI groups to move into quality , the value of the quality ethos has taught me that it 's the only way to do business . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 15 | In the 3 years he 's been there , he 's had 2 burglaries and this is the second van that 's been taken . |
| 16 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 17 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 18 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the twenty years they 've been here , they 've clearly thrived . |
| 23 | In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together . |
| 24 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We have , in the two years I 've been here , we have got a depth of talent in our staff that 's hard to believe . |
| 27 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 28 | So you so the two years you 've been here you 've not managed to really get to know many people . |
| 29 | ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak . |
| 30 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |