Example sentences of "year [adv] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
2 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
3 | The former skipper had the misfortune of conceding the own-goal which gave Swindon a play-off victory at Wembley two years ago but he still led the team out in the First Division the next season . |
4 | It was only 13 years ago but it really was a different world . |
5 | I used to fish there with some friends several years ago and we rarely caught less than 100lbs in a session . |
6 | That was twenty thousand years ago and we still ca n't forget . |
7 | The wild aurochs , as big as a modern English Longhorn , was widespread in Britain while there was still a landbridge linking the land to the Continent after the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age , but it died out here during the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago and it never reached Ireland . |
8 | And it 's the only house now well I left it I left it five year ago but it still belongs to my son . |
9 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
10 | He was England 's match-winning bowler against the West Indies here a year ago but he never got the same bite and purchase yesterday . |
11 | Numbers applying for entry in September 1992 have increased even more sharply than a year ago and we currently anticipate a further large increase in first year entrants . |