Example sentences of "as [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the years go by , Ursula 's body becomes a bore , and she experiences a fear of ageing : ‘ I shall have to die fairly young , because I wo n't be able to live with the infirmities of old age . ’ |
| 2 | The real essence of ‘ Thatcherism ’ , indeed , lay not so much in its ideas , which proved to be increasingly malleable as the years went by , and especially when Nigel Lawson took over the Treasury in 1984 . |
| 3 | As the years went by , and some of his friends became prolific writers , Dyson came to be jealous of their reputations and to scorn what they wrote . |
| 4 | That is pretty high praise ; and though there are some obvious exceptions , they were fewer as the years went by . |
| 5 | As the years passed , he sacrificed a little speed for greater control , especially of away-swing , but that run-up never for a moment lost its beauty . |
| 6 | As the years had gone by , however , his style had changed . |
| 7 | And as the years passed , Old John he grew poor , |
| 8 | Also , the amalgamation of unions which occurred at a rapid pace throughout the inter-war years greatly improved the organization and effectiveness of the trade union movement as the years progressed . |
| 9 | As the years have passed , he 's started waiting for us at the door on visitors ' days . |
| 10 | Public relations is the most vital business of the royal household , the expression of an instinct for self-preservation which has grown steadily more sophisticated as the years have rolled by and the appetite of the media has grown more voracious . |
| 11 | To those who heard and believed that , unvarying in their belief as the years passed , the contra cause was morally obvious . |
| 12 | This was , of course , a faction among Catholics , and one that dangerously found itself outnumbered and outmoded as the years went on . |
| 13 | As the years stumbled by she found that she had nothing much to say to anybody . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems the weather gets fiercer and fiercer as the years pass . |
| 15 | Although the early ‘ fire ’ of the Red Clydesiders lost much of its impetus in Westminster as the years went by , it was Maxton 's fellow social crusader David Kirkwood who was responsible for the announcement by Neville Chamberlain , then dealing with bits of paper as Chancellor of the Exchequer , that work was to be resumed on hull 534 in Clydebank . |
| 16 | As the years passed , telephone , telex , facsimile and computer data traffic all came under this original warrant , so that not a single communication enters or leaves Britain without being subject to interception by GCCS 's successor , GCHQ . |
| 17 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and became too lazy to take them off . |
| 18 | As the years passed The Beatles came under many influences and one of the most famous was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who founded Transcendental Meditation . |
| 19 | It may seem pessimistic , even morbid , to think about a child , parents , a partner or ourselves becoming more and more dependent as the years go by . |
| 20 | As the years have gone by , much doubt has been cast on the approaches even by people closely involved in them . |
| 21 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 22 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 23 | As the years passed , the exotic Eastern cats gradually ousted the less exciting British cats and became the hot favourites , much to the distress of the British organizers . |
| 24 | Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’ |
| 25 | Many incidents of a similarly charming nature were to follow as the years went by , without any diminution in the public fascination with this spinster lady from a remote Yorkshire dale dressed in complex layers of well-laundered rags . |
| 26 | And then , of course , it becomes less important as the years go by — that 's one of the compensations of getting older . |
| 27 | Are you getting apprehensive about riding as the years tick by ? |
| 28 | Your wedding photographs will keep the memories of the big da alive for you and your future family for many years to come , providing a permanent record of all those small details so carefully planned yet so easy to forget as the years roll by . |
| 29 | It should be remembered , however , that all old people tend to become a little more self-centred as the years go by . |
| 30 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |