Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 3 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 4 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 5 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 6 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 7 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 8 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 9 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 10 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 11 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 12 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 15 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 16 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 17 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 18 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 19 | Pipe Major John K McAllister is stepping down after 45 years service and Pipe Major George McFetridge after 35 years . |
| 20 | Due to be replaced next year by a huge new hi-tech complex , the original Cerruti mill is winding down after 110 years in production . |
| 21 | Fisher , 18 , is serving up to 15 years for blasting mother-of-two Mary Jo Buttasuoco , 37 . |
| 22 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's getting on for twenty-one years old , and perfectly capable of looking after herself . ’ |
| 24 | He replaces film producer David Putnam who is standing down after seven years in the position . |
| 25 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 26 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |
| 27 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |