Example sentences of "[prep] years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of years they adopted a child which they named Peggy , of whom he was very fond . |
| 2 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 3 | Over the past couple of years they have waited patiently while the Microsoft and IBM products converged . |
| 4 | These entries are reminiscent of the leases mentioned in some probate inventories , the wording of which occasionally implies that they were valued on the basis of the number of years they still had to run , calculated perhaps as a proportion of the original fines . |
| 5 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 6 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 7 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 8 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 9 | With the passing of years they now have the help of their daughter Anne and son-in-law Hugh . |
| 10 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 11 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 12 | For years they had lived with his mounting paranoia , the ever-more-irrational purges of his intimates , then entering an even more extreme phase with the totally imaginary ‘ Doctors ' Plot ’ . |
| 13 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 14 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 15 | For years they were both happy to live like Englishmen . |
| 16 | For years they have educated and delighted us . |
| 17 | For years they suffered in silence while barriers were pranged , concrete bollards damaged and other cars blocked in as the 23-year-old careered around looking for a space in the car park . |
| 18 | For years they have marched , waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege . |
| 19 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 20 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 21 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 22 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 23 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 24 | For years they taunted bitter cross-town rivals Linfield for being a sectarian football club , for making Windsor Park a no-go area for Catholics . |
| 25 | For years they were greeted with a filthy snigger and a knowing wink . |
| 26 | For years they went on and on and on and everything they took and that was from eight o'clock in the morning was either from Marks and Spencers or British Home Stores . |
| 27 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |