Example sentences of "[num] year and [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 2 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 3 | The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool . |
| 4 | ‘ I just told him I had n't won an Oscar for almost forty years and it was about time , that 's all . |
| 5 | my mum he 's been here forty year and she 's never lost never lost her accent . |
| 6 | And he 's been there now about three years and they 're just surviving , and he 's says , I 'm earning roughly what I was here but I 'm working literally twice the hours . |
| 7 | I 've been on it for over three years and I 'm quite concerned about some of the things I 've heard tonight and I 'm going to make an appointment |
| 8 | ‘ I 've known him three years and he was always flush . |
| 9 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
| 10 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 11 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 12 | Tony , Jill and their son , Martin , have lived at the Old Rectory for twenty years and it is very much their home — as your hosts they will bring early morning tea ( if requested ) , and arrange numerous activities . |
| 13 | Yes , I do agree , Bill , and I think another reason why we 're more aware of it now is because we 've had unfortunately so many disasters in the last oh five/six years and we 're increasingly coming to realize that children do also suffer quite severely from post-trauma stress . |
| 14 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 15 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |
| 16 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The award is given every two years and it is generally a requirement that the discovered drug is in therapeutic use . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been fascinated by the IBM Environment for the past 20 years and I am only too pleased to unravel its complexities to those of you attending this seminar . |