Example sentences of "[prep] just [num] year [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have taken my life away , my young child from me that I have always wanted , and after just three years and ten months . |
| 2 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 3 | Part-time cleaner Betty Woods , 60 , paid full contributions for just four years before she wed Ron , 62 . |
| 4 | Michael Rock , who 'd allowed his house in London to be used by the gang , was jailed for 10 years and a 76-year-old courier , George Chay , who 'd brought LSD into Britain from California , was jailed for just four years because the judge said he did n't want him to die in prison . |
| 5 | It now has a total debt of $2.5 billion , its people have a life expectancy of just 43 years and six per cent of them have no access to clean water . |