"I judge myself by winning, so to not win in five years really, really hurt".
"It was the start of when guitar music didn't matter for two years really.
It was two years, really, before I could get along in it, and four years before I was fluent.
He later spent several years in an architectural woodworking shop in New York, which he left after five years, "really knowing how to make stuff, with my hands".
But even though you've been on the trail for almost a year, for almost six years really, they still don't think they know who you are.
Then reading in the local Bolton paper last Thursday that it was the end for Kevin after almost nine years really upset me and our children.
Was it, I ask Toal, who remained on the blanket for four years, really that bad? 'It was worse,' he says.
Can random mutations over a mere 3.8 billion years really be responsible for wings, eyeballs, knees, camouflage, lactose digestion, photosynthesis, and the rest of nature's creative marvels?
However the suggestion that Ukip would seek to ban new immigrants from accessing free state education for five years really does raise the bar for unmitigated idiocy.
"Four years, really?" the guard said, leaning back and wiping his hand over his face skeptically, perhaps because Rikers Island is primarily intended for short stays, with most inmates typically staying no more than three months.
