Example sentences of "[be] [num] [noun pl] since i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it must be fifty years since I 've seen her . |
| 2 | It must be ten years since I went to the optician and I keep promising myself I will go when the opportunity presents itself , because I love to read . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 4 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 5 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 6 | Yes it 's in fact er I left school here in nineteen seventy six so it 's eleven years since I was here . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's three years since I 've seen him , long before all this business . |
| 9 | This autumn the last of my children is off to university and I 'm wondering if it 's realistic to consider entering the job market , since it 's 29 years since I worked . |
| 10 | Well it looks to me I mean I , it , it 's five days since I was in Manchester so |
| 11 | Gerber is no stranger to the Barbarians cause , although : ‘ It is nine years since I was last invited . ’ |
| 12 | Although it is 40 years since I was called-up , the memories of that part of my life are still vivid and I still have my flying logbook to refresh my memory . |
| 13 | What with the flower sellers and the blind musician , the old man at his sewing machine , the two sisters selling maps of Delhi by the roadside and two others collecting camel dung for fuel the sights and sound if not the actual smell came flooding back , even though it 's 40 years since I was last there . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's eighteen years since I met Prince Charming . |
| 15 | It 's two months since I tasted child meat . ’ |
| 16 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 17 | As I approached Gateshead Hall , I realized it was nine years since I had left it . |
| 18 | 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 . |