Example sentences of "years [adv] and [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do realize it 's nine years later and we 've still got the bits , got all the bits in the garage ? |
| 2 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 3 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 4 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 5 | I 've played back-to-back rugby for four years now and I feel as fresh as the day that I started . |
| 6 | What we find is that sometimes people have taken out policies some years ago and they 've actually forgotten what their money 's doing for them so erm that 's another side of it and also to introduce our new financial planning service erm and in doing so we may be able to highlight areas in which we could save you money er for example erm saving you money on tax or increasing your income either now or some time in the future . |
| 7 | They see a completely different Northern Ireland from , say , ten years ago and they come back enthusiastic about what they have seen . ’ |
| 8 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 9 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 10 | He started things off in South Kirby years ago and they have gone ahead ever since . |
| 11 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 12 | Anathema as it may be to Welsh Rugby Union ears , this was something they realised at Twickenham at least five years ago and we have all seen the felicitous results . |
| 13 | Yes , that was my husband 's way of proposing to me all those years ago and we have indeed watched many horror movies together since — but it was n't very romantic , was it ? |
| 14 | Fixx was some years ago and we want more of this contemporary satirical stuff . |
| 15 | I crawled down these stairs forty-eight years ago and I 've walked up and down them ever since , mostly in me bare feet , and I 've never got splinters . ’ |
| 16 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 17 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 18 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 19 | I was widowed four years ago and I know only too well what a terrible thing it is to suddenly find yourself alone . |
| 20 | Well , I 've spoken about how we remember you but I know you have far more memories of being here those years ago and I know you 're really itching to get up off your seats and go and have a good look round to see where you were stationed and if it 's at all possible to see the huts , the billets or anything where you were . |
| 21 | The estate was created thirty years ago and I do n't think they gave crime prevention a thought . |
| 22 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 23 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 24 | six years ago , seven years ago and you know it 's moved on from there and I made the point , yes it was started in the point a at the level of , there 's a file it 's got information , get on with it ! |
| 25 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 26 | Even if those figures are reduced by the two million each year that leaves a very large financial mountain to climb in the years ahead and I apologise for beginning with that gloomy prognosis but it does get better , thanks to our proposals . |
| 27 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |