Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 2 | We are looking two to three years ahead at least . |
| 3 | Award-winning journalist John Burbedge has been made redundant after 13 years with the brewing giant , Courage . |
| 4 | I 've just been made redundant after 30 years as an engineer with British Telecom . ’ |
| 5 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn hit back saying the Tories were rattled by the campaign and the people of Darlington had been made poorer by 13 years of Conservative misrule . |
| 6 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 7 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 8 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 9 | High Street shops are getting desperate after two years of poor sales . |
| 10 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 11 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 12 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 13 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 14 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 15 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 16 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
| 17 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to be doing this in ten years ’ time but I certainly believe it is important to plan ahead . |
| 19 | How many Masai will be doing this in twenty years ’ time ? |
| 20 | Both enjoy heavy soil and dappled shade and can be left undisturbed for some years before lifting , dividing and replanting |
| 21 | In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified . |
| 22 | A sum of Rs200 would be paid monthly for three years to as many as 500,000 people currently claiming compensation . |
| 23 | The first to enter are the daughters of the infidel Indian kings who have been taken captive during that year . |
| 24 | They were both old lags and were sentenced each to ten years imprisonment . |
| 25 | The news is that heterosexuals had become infected with H I V , the virus that leads to AIDS , ten to fifteen years ago , and that the numbers were doubling ten to fifteen years ago , that 's what it means when we hear AIDS cases , and what that must mean for today , is horrifying . |
| 26 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 27 | But the heavy rain has been welcomed by the British Waterways , as a much needed boost for its canals and reservoirs which have been kept low during this year 's long , hot summer . |
| 28 | BATMAN 2 ( can you stand the anticipation ? ) starts shooting in Mexico later this year , much to the displeasure of the British film industry : the original Pinewood set has been kept intact since last year at a cost of £60,000 per month . |
| 29 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 30 | If you are sent to prison for up to six months , you have to wait seven years ; a fine is wiped clean after five years and probation or conditional discharge takes one year . |