Example sentences of "[adj] years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | How appropriate , how impressive : ‘ From light years they arrived , to feel the pulse of everyone around . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 3 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 4 | erm and of course , er , normal years they also earn quite a lot from exporting their cat |
| 5 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 6 | In succeeding years they continued to expand while others , attracted by their success , also produced iron in the district . |
| 7 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 8 | And so for forty long weary years they wander around as nomads in a wilderness ! |
| 9 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 10 | First-timers in their millions were backing the saxophone-playing candidate from the baby-boom years they could identify with . |
| 11 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 12 | In recent years they have fallen back . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 14 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 15 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 16 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |
| 17 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 18 | In recent years they have used commercial strategy consultants to undertake this work on behalf of their clients . |
| 19 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
| 20 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 21 | In the subsequent years they have appeared in losing finals against Tyrone 1984 , Derry 1987 and Donegal 1990 . |