Example sentences of "[num] years [conj] [pron] 've " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |
| 2 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 3 | That 's what has happened in world football for the last 10 years and we 've just started doing it . |
| 4 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 5 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 6 | I mean I 've lived in here for the last fourtee thirteen years and I 've lived in Northern Ireland and Bradford and all sorts . |
| 7 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 9 | Oh it must be fifty years since I 've seen her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's three years since I 've seen him , long before all this business . |
| 12 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 13 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 14 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 16 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 17 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 18 | I 've been in the trade for 29 years and I 've never known it this bad . |
| 19 | Why you 're doing this Christmas , it may be my last , John said what do you mean , I said well , I do n't know if I 'm going to be in a classroom this time next year , I mean , I really enjoy Christmas with the children , fifteen years since I 've done it , I 've forgotten how I enjoyed myself . |
| 20 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 21 | Oh n no we 've , we 've been in the area for about fifteen years but we 've , we needed a move up so er that 's why we 've come here . |
| 22 | Depends on how long you 've known each other I mean fifteen years and you 've only just ! |
| 23 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 24 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 25 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 26 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 27 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 28 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 29 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 30 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |