Example sentences of "[adv] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professionally the years had been good to him , though it was a great disappointment to Maud that he had specialized in diseases of the mind . |
| 2 | The second point is : Most of us down the years have tried to pray , and have found a pattern that suits us . |
| 3 | Where the information is available , it shows that each modern nation is descended from a wide diversity of peoples , leaving aside all those who have joined or left down the years . |
| 4 | ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years . |
| 5 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 6 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 7 | I believe that Frank is too autocratic , too opinionated — especially about relay selections , which have been the main bone of contention between us down the years . |
| 8 | All down the years . |
| 9 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
| 10 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 11 | Climbing grades can often conceal the true character of a route , as Dave Cook has discovered down the years |
| 12 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
| 13 | The books were , deservedly , enormously successful and stories in the genre have continued to be written down the years and show no sign of drying up . |
| 14 | He had a sudden vision of families in endless reproduction — Willmots and Stannards and the rest replicating themselves down the years , perfecting their most infamous capacities . |
| 15 | But now it was everywhere , clamouring at her , shouting down the years of her virginal marriage . |
| 16 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 18 | And so on down the years the litany of excitement and drama has continued . |
| 19 | I turned , like you do in a nightmare , and down the years the vision of terror I glimpsed still springs fresh in my mind . |
| 20 | ‘ You surely do n't see it continuing down the years ? ’ |
| 21 | Laura Davies , Sue Strudwick , Trish Johnson and Nicholas yesterday all spoke as one on the subject of how , but for the support they had had from certain European sponsors down the years , they would all be thinking in terms of pulling out of playing in Europe altogether . |
| 22 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 23 | So the years rolled by until the day the Archduke Ferdinand 's carriage was accidentally halted in a street in Serajevo . |
| 24 | So the years went by , and such involvements as came along never satisfied me as being quite right enough either for one thing or the other . |
| 25 | And so the years passed . |
| 26 | For an essay referencing is extremely important but for exams it 's nt but just get the names in not necessarily the years Okay , when you think of erm any , when you 're revising stuff and you want to learn studies , try and put them in a context . |
| 27 | They whiled away the years by maintaining salons in which the gibes against the ruling house were repeated , or had their origins , for even in such aristocratic surroundings wit was often confused with bad taste . |
| 28 | Although crowded with prospectors and pan-handlers looking for gold when that English bank-clerk , Robert W. Service , was writing his ‘ Songs of a Sourdough ’ and ‘ The Cremation of Dan McGrew ’ , Whitehorse and Dawson City were now drowsing away the years as forgotten towns . |
| 29 | Thus the years at Halton fell away like the beech leaves from the trees around the camp some golden , some dark brown , but only one black that covered the parade grounds and even got into our billets on a windy day in the autumn . |
| 30 | Diana has grown increasingly fit over the years . |