Example sentences of "[be] [art] good [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They 're a good twenty years younger , and they 've only known them a year or two .
2 In my office the majority of female employees are under 25 and , at 50 , I am a good 10 years older than any other woman in the building .
3 It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff .
4 He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it .
5 Well , it 's been a good half year for investment banking .
6 ‘ We would expect calendar year 1993 , based on the early performance and based on last year , to be a good solid year from a profit perspective , ’ Roach told the news wire .
7 It was to be a good many years before Coniston came within the sphere of operations however .
8 Well it 's never been serviced since the day we bought it and that must be a good ten years ago .
9 Well he is n't that much but he 's a good nine years .
10 I dare say you 've noticed , miss , as he 's a good many years my senior ? ’
11 Ah well it 's a good few years for this .
12 It is a good few years since most of them were serving , and the memories will soon be flooding back .
13 She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed .
14 It was n't that he was a good few years older than him or that , like Mick , he had been a working chap .
15 We were neither of us getting any younger , but he was a good few years older than I and I was the one with the roof over my head .
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