Example sentences of "[adj] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over some years she was much occupied with the care of her mother and an invalid sister . |
| 2 | For some years she had struggled to come to terms with her own emotions . |
| 3 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 4 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 5 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 6 | In two and a half years she has won over 40 trophies and hundreds of rosettes so do n't despair , Kathy , keep an eye on the condition and just enjoy your horse . |
| 7 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
| 8 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |
| 9 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 10 | But during these last few years she had felt tired , weary . |
| 11 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 12 | been quite a few years she 's been |
| 13 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |
| 14 | During the past few years she has been forced to endure : — A break-in at her home and the loss of £5,500 ; — A series of raids on her office which eventually prompted the company to move elsewhere in the town ; — Drunks breaking into the company headquarters to sleep off their drinking binges ; — Car theft and vehicle damage . |
| 15 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 16 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 17 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 18 | For 10 years she has managed her garden , in the suburbs of Leicester , in ways that encourage wildlife . |
| 19 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 20 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 21 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 22 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 23 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 24 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
| 25 | During these years she made her journeys in record time . |
| 26 | During these years she also held the British record for endurance swimming , extending it from 26 hrs. in January 1930 to 44 hrs. 30 min. by the end of the year , then to 45 hrs. in 1931 , and finally to 46 hrs. in 1932 . |
| 27 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 28 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 29 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 30 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |