Example sentences of "years and i [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 5 | for many years and I wheeled her around in a , in a |
| 6 | 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 . |