Example sentences of "years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 2 | Taking the period 1960–80 for the United States , he estimated that if during these twenty years no-one died ( a most extreme assumption ) before reaching the retirement age of 65 , then the labour force would be 4.8 per cent bigger than projected and the growth rate of national product would be 0.20 per cent higher per annum . |
| 3 | For years everyone around you — family , parents , even magazines and newspapers , have been telling you : ‘ Work hard , Pass your exams , Your whole future depends on this ’ . |
| 4 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 5 | So in a sense , in 80 years nothing has changed — yet clearly everything has . |
| 6 | After 10 years nothing had happened , so in 1968 the Institute of Trademarks Agents called for urgent action . |
| 7 | But in 24 years nothing has been done . |
| 8 | He always uses my first name , although he is several years my junior . |
| 9 | She resembles closely the ‘ buxom Welsh cousin named Florence , who was probably eight or nine years my senior ’ , so described in The Childhood , with whom he spent ‘ the most blissful hours ’ in country walks from his grandmother 's Swindon home to Shaw or Lydiard when he was ten or eleven . |
| 10 | For the last couple of years my Sambucus racemosa ‘ Plumosa Aurea ’ has started well in spring , but soon the leaves brown and some even fall early . |
| 11 | In the past five years my Honda Accord would n't start in Scotland ( the earth wire from the battery fell off ) and my Honda Quintet quietly conked out on the M40 ( cause never found ) . |
| 12 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 13 | After two years my work was extended to include a number of musical shows , including piano recitals , with such international personalities as Egon Petri and the Australian baritone , Clement Q. Williams and his accompanist-wife , Enid Conley . |
| 14 | Over the years my health had always been good . |
| 15 | For more than sixty years my poor old liver and kidney — 1 now had only one — had struggled valiantly to act as a purification plant and sewage works . |
| 16 | After a comparatively quiet two years my athletics career came alive again in 1984 , Olympic year . |
| 17 | She was a neat little blonde , five years my senior , and perpetually smelling of eau de cologne and cheap powder . |
| 18 | You see , Cissie Edelman was a ‘ big ’ girl — maybe seven years my senior , and I played with Joe , her little brother . |
| 19 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 20 | ‘ Actually , it was n't hard for me to play a man ten years my junior , because I was not only physically younger but I 've always been emotionally immature . ’ |
| 21 | Here I am , knocking 40 any year now and sharing my life with a woman who is seven years my junior . |
| 22 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 23 | After five years my two colleagues left , one to return to Canada and the other to become assistant priest at Rangoon cathedral , so I was left to do my best with all the subjects of the curriculum , except for occasional help from visiting clergy or teachers . |
| 24 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 25 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 26 | Recollecting the years my parents had spent abroad , it was very possible they had not . |
| 27 | For many years my husband Brian and I had determined to go to Normandy in order to visit the grave and to find out , if possible , any further information concerning the shooting down of his aircraft over Cherbourg in September 1940 , even though it had happened so many years before . |
| 28 | For twenty years my life has been lived within the Left , and the companionship and creativity of many of the people I have met have changed me . |
| 29 | In the past two years my own views of mathematics , how people learn it , and how it should be taught , have changed . |
| 30 | Lorne , three years my junior , did n't even want to arrive . |