Example sentences of "[det] the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In half the years covered by counts a distinct double peak has been evident during the autumn movements , in August/September , and again between late October and early December . |
| 2 | She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can . |
| 3 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 4 | Is that natural after all the years of bringing him up ? ’ |
| 5 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 6 | The civil servants watched with barely concealed glee as the ruling party became embarrassed when the North Koreans demanded compensation not only for Japan 's colonial rule but also for all the years since . |
| 7 | In all the years that The End magazine was printed in Liverpool , we never received a single letter about ‘ trainers ’ in America , but we did get hundreds about the training shoes the different football crews were wearing . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 9 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 10 | ‘ In all the years I 've been here , nothing will beat this . |
| 11 | Fletcher ( op. cit. ) has commented that during all the years when Bennett was studying the Scottish flora and publishing records , he did not once visit Scotland . |
| 12 | In all the years that Don Roberto had acted as his Control when on loan to the CIA , the elderly Englishman had never mentioned Trent 's mother . |
| 13 | Over all the years , including these nineteen , some bonds were given to the club but the majority were bequeathed to individuals , either to be kept as an investment out of family sentiment , or possibly sold quietly to Club members , selected as previously described . |
| 14 | Attainment targets should be grouped for this purpose into profile components to make assessment and reporting manageable ; ( c ) ten different levels of attainment should be identified within each target covering all the years of compulsory schooling . |
| 15 | ‘ But over all the years , I went on with the pretence — putting on a face , or faces , pretending that life was ‘ normal ’ . |
| 16 | In the succeeding years of the first scheme , and in all the years of the second , cII is necessarily smaller than , and greater than . |
| 17 | Thus , to calculate the rate of inflation from January 1984 to January 1985 , the appropriate formula is as follows : unc Computing the rate of inflation in this way for all the years since 1975 yields the figures shown in column 2 of Table 5.3 . |
| 18 | I shall tell my husband of your attack on me at Cherry Tree Farm , and how you have pestered me all the years of my marriage . ’ |
| 19 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 20 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 21 | ten different levels of attainment should be identified within each target covering all the years of compulsory schooling . |
| 22 | Now , after all the years of struggling against the critical tide , Anne Rice is proving herself master , or rather mistress , of her own destiny . |
| 23 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 24 | Then , walking away in disgust , he said , ‘ I 've never come across such a disgraceful congregation in all the years I 've given burial services . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 26 | Los Angeles 11pm , Wednesday April 29 : Driving home past the movie studios that line Melrose Avenue , Chuck D 's angry rap bounces around my head : ‘ For all the years we looked like clowns . |
| 27 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 28 | And , giving his mum credit for his stylish success , he added : ‘ All the years of saying , ‘ You 're not going out like that , ’ have finally come to fruition . ’ |
| 29 | After all the years of hard work and sacrifice Nigel has done it . |
| 30 | W.C. Fields used one phrase which I 've always loved — especially after all the years I 've been married — he said , ‘ Elephants are just like women — nice to look at , but who wants to own one ? ’ |