Example sentences of "years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He likes Elland Road , he 's built up a squad that looks like it could develop into a REAL force over the next few years & he 'd be mad to leave for a job where he has a competition every 2 years/a draw 's a bad result/and nobody likes him ! |
| 2 | Assistant recorder Martin Axtell imposed a suspended possession order , saying Mrs Carruthers could not play music in her flat for two years or she would be evicted . |
| 3 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 4 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 5 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 6 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 7 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 8 | of men working full-time has never been wider in the past 100 years than it is today . |
| 9 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |
| 10 | It is the response of the supermarket business as a whole to the demand for a healthier and more natural product , freshly produced to a high standard , which has led to the advent of the in-store bakery , and in turn created the need , at any rate within Sainsbury 's , for structured , high quality management training , geared much more towards how we plan the business to grow over the next five to ten years than it is to simply manning the pumps . |
| 11 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 12 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 13 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 16 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 17 | Progressing slowly , seeming older by years than he had seemed on this beach the day before , more bent and huddled , the Commander shook his head in time to the steps he took . |
| 18 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 19 | Instead , the level of judicial training that is provided for Crown Court judges , as for magistrates , is fairly rudimentary , consisting of a three-day seminar for new recruits , and a refresher seminar every five years once they are permanently appointed . |
| 20 | It needed to be , with a different corps every couple of years once they became officers and a new baby born every eighteen months or so . |
| 21 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 22 | No I 've been here more than five years so they 'll have to give me five week 's notice . |
| 23 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 24 | Many of us here present today have worked for our employers for over two years so we have some protection under law . |
| 25 | years so we 're starting from scratch . |
| 26 | But My Lords the idea that independent people is news nonsense for the last thirty years so we 've had independent people on the police authorities by the of the magistrates and there 's nothing new in that . |
| 27 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 28 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |
| 29 | In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology . |
| 30 | A spokeswoman for Mersey Docks and Harbour Company said : ’ They are now quite old and have not been in regular use in recent years so it was decided to dismantle them to improve the appearance of the area . |