Example sentences of "[num] years [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 've lived in here for the last fourtee thirteen years and I 've lived in Northern Ireland and Bradford and all sorts . |
| 2 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 3 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 5 | Oh it must be fifty years since I 've seen her . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's probably only the past two or three years that I started to feel comfortable with myself . |
| 7 | ‘ He will be out of prison in three years but I have to live with this , ’ she said . |
| 8 | But I do n't remember when that idea took over ; probably two or three years after I started working with Basil . |
| 9 | He admits : ‘ It is three years since I 've scored for England and I 'm well aware that the two I scored against Czechoslovakia remain my only goals . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's three years since I 've seen him , long before all this business . |
| 11 | It 's nearly three years since I started writing , I have n't got |
| 12 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 13 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 14 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 15 | Why you 're doing this Christmas , it may be my last , John said what do you mean , I said well , I do n't know if I 'm going to be in a classroom this time next year , I mean , I really enjoy Christmas with the children , fifteen years since I 've done it , I 've forgotten how I enjoyed myself . |
| 16 | As I approached Gateshead Hall , I realized it was nine years since I had left it . |
| 17 | A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up . |
| 18 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 19 | And er I was pe I was paying I was still paying er five years after I 'd finished ! |
| 20 | The grammar schools once provided the necessary culture of learning , as well as specific instruction , for students from under privileged homes , as we see in Judith Grossman 's Her Own Terms , or Anthony Burgess 's autobiographical recollection of reading English at Manchester University in the late thirties ( some twenty years before I started teaching there myself ) . |
| 21 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 22 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
| 23 | It was over two years after I had subtracted Blyth with an adder that I found an opportunity to get rid of Paul . |
| 24 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 25 | They had made the transition to college ‘ inhabitants ’ in the two years since I had left the borough . |
| 26 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 27 | ‘ Let's face it , the Olympics are only once every four years and I want to stay on until the end . ’ |