Example sentences of "a good [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ No , no , she was the youngest by a good five years . |
| 3 | For a good five years , round then , I was n't speaking to your dad , or your Gran . ’ |
| 4 | Well he is n't that much but he 's a good nine years . |
| 5 | The group had a good first year , with pre-tax profits up from £14.3m to £18.6m . |
| 6 | Have a happy Christmas and a good New Year . |
| 7 | I know that I shall make only a small start before Christmas , so perhaps I can take the opportunity afforded by this Newsletter to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a good New Year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | EVER since Mikhail Gorbachev launched his concept of a Common European Home , a good two years ago , there has been discussion about the shape and content of such a dwelling . |
| 10 | The US Big Six have been noticeably slow to take action against the ‘ litigation epidemic ’ that has been threatening the stability of their business for a good two years . |
| 11 | It will take a good two years to get over it . |
| 12 | Not only is the Newton St. Loe pavement dated a good 30-40 years earlier than has been suggested above , the Withington mosaic is later than the former and earlier than the Barton Farm and Woodchester examples ( as an increasing elaboration of design is accepted as the criterion by which these developments are best understood ) . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That still makes a good thirty years . |
| 16 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |
| 17 | Every Saturday night , for a good many years , he and George and George 's wife Annie laughed themselves to stitches and talked , glassy-eyed among friends , in the bar of the Cross Keys . |
| 18 | We 've created in Ulster and Ireland a monster that will terrify the island for a good many years to come . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 20 | Having craned my neck in likely locations for a good many years , I finally discovered it displaying its gorgeous wings over an oil-stain beside my car . |
| 21 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 22 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 23 | AIDA ruled the advertising world for a good many years , in the absence of anything better . |
| 24 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 25 | Of course , you can change the fellow , as for instance Margaret Allingham did over a good many years with her Mr Campion , who started out as a form of imitation Scarlet Pimpernel and ended as an acute and compassionate observer of human follies . |
| 26 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 27 | Authors in both traditions happily wrote away in the footsteps of the great Sherlock for a good many years after his second , slightly less flamboyant departure from the scene . |
| 28 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |
| 29 | It was to be a good many years before Coniston came within the sphere of operations however . |
| 30 | From then onwards , indeed for a good many years , nothing more appears to have been done on the Coniston Manor . |