Example sentences of "[num] years and i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 2 | They did n't succeed in oppressing me when I was in prison for 16 years and I ask you now , do n't stand alone when you can be together ’ . |
| 3 | there was a big discussion about the standard report , it wo n't cover five years and I said it does n't have to cover five years , it never has done it 's only covered four cos we what we do in year eleven is different anyway . |
| 4 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 5 | But then I had another er one within er two years and I had them both fairly quickly . |
| 6 | I 've worked with her now for nearly two years and I think she 'd do an excellent job . |
| 7 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 8 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |