Example sentences of "[det] years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 2 | For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike . |
| 3 | Apart from the ‘ Hands off Russia ’ campaign of 1920 he feels that the British working class had never thought or acted internationally and , ‘ For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided even with a single strike . ’ |
| 4 | In the course of three and a half years they were able to recover over fourteen thousand ounces of gold , three quarters of it fine , from the single cemetery of Sinú . |
| 5 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 6 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 7 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 8 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 9 | In the past few years they have done such a great job in establishing a platform to build on . ’ |
| 10 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 11 | For the next few years they stay in these fresh waters but even at this stage in their lives , their wanderings do not cease . |
| 12 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 13 | Over the last few years they have simply been brought into line with demand . |
| 14 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
| 15 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 16 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 17 | Mind you , I think the last few years they they 'd sort of erm relaxed a bit more |
| 18 | They 've always had links with industry and commerce , but over the last few years they 've recognised the need to develop and publicise their links . |
| 19 | and all these years they spend . |
| 20 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 21 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 22 | For many years they had formed part of The Market Place surface . |
| 23 | For many years they were barely on grunting , let alone speaking terms . |
| 24 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 25 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 26 | He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her . |
| 27 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 28 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 29 | In all years they included a series of national newspapers ; the Daily Mirror , The Times the News of the World the Sunday People and one local , the London Evening Standard . |
| 30 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |