Example sentences of "year and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They had been covered up by layers of varnish and paint over the years and no-one knew what lay underneath . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The plans have existed for three years and no-one has asked the supporters for their opinion , ’ says a spokesman . |
| 3 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 4 | This Project Eden of yours : five years and nothing to show for it . |
| 5 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 6 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 7 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 8 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 9 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 10 | On the other hand , if you 're married to somebody for forty years and they get fat , you do n't just divorce them because they get fat . |
| 11 | Alfie Common scored a penalty at Bramall Lane , home of Sheffield United , to give Middlesbrough their first away win for two years and they managed to avoid the drop to the Second Division . |
| 12 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 13 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 14 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 15 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 16 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 17 | We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’ |
| 18 | Many in the farming industry say the current system has survived well for seventy years and they see little reason for changing it . |
| 19 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 20 | Er , turning to the media investments , well we all tend to think that the er , the bids tended to be on the high side but er , at least Yorkshire got the licence for the next ten years and they have the option in ninety eight to go for a further ten years and I can tell you er , because I 've had er , lots of conversations with Clive that they 're really working on , on making the best improving their returns from that franchise and I 'm quite sure they 'll succeed . |
| 21 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 22 | This development was undoubtedly happening ; but it is important to be clear exactly which features were different from the immediate post-war years and which continued as before . |
| 23 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 24 | In reality , these devices are a form of laser whose development can be traced back to the post-war years and which have a wide range of applications beyond generating very high powers . |
| 25 | One could develop the argument that a well-run housing association , with tenants on the board and with regular consultation , might be more accountable than a local authority for which there was a vote only every four years and which tended to ignore the views of tenants . |
| 26 | Legislative power resides in a 33-member legislature ( the Nitijela ) , which is elected for four years and which chooses a President from among its members . |
| 27 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 28 | ‘ Three years and we got divorced . |
| 29 | That 's what has happened in world football for the last 10 years and we 've just started doing it . |
| 30 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |