Example sentences of "in years and " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a little evidence that the final choice lay between George Chase , the Bishop of Ripon , mature in years and experience , a scholar , solid , stable , absolutely reliable , shy , and at times remote , and Michael Ramsey , without experience , untried , but one of the leaders of a party in the Church and someone who would do more to represent learning among the bench of bishops . |
| 2 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 3 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 4 | If she is very advanced in years and no longer interested in cooking , she may well be happy to stay out of it completely , apart from making the odd cup of tea or coffee , and be pleased to have her meals prepared for her . |
| 5 | In truth , 't is Joan de Warenne concerns myself — she who is closer to me in years and closer still to my heart . |
| 6 | ‘ I expected my times at Marseille to be measured in years and months , not weeks and days . |
| 7 | And in years and years to come you 'll be all alone and useless and you 'll think ‘ Perhaps I should have helped Masklin when he asked me , ’ and then you 'll think , ‘ If I had my time all over again , I would have helped him . ’ |
| 8 | Table I.2 , which shows the expectation of further life in years and of ultimate age at various ages for men and women at various periods of the twentieth century , is another expression of their different life survival patterns and of how these have changed over time . |
| 9 | Use upper case letters when working in years and lower case with months , to avoid mistakes when switching from one calculation to another . |
| 10 | By car you can explore an unspoilt region of stunning mountain scenery , fresh orchards and attractive little villages where everyday life has hardly changed in years and still revolves around the old church square . |
| 11 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
| 12 | Quite a number of the people you speak to will be getting on in years and have lost their sharpness of hearing . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 14 | Couville had been Corbett 's master and mentor when Hugh first became a clerk and , despite the gap in years and experience , they had become and remained firm friends . |
| 15 | I have n't seen Billy in years and I do n't know why he decided to have a night on the tiles on Sunday . |
| 16 | He was and because he was getting on in years and er did n't get out as much as usual , my husband said we 'd get a television for him and we had a black and white television |
| 17 | Now we 've got this year , certainly it will succeed in years and pay , pay the interest off , that will re result in a any more money your own debt . |
| 18 | They 're still big , still noisy , but getting on in years and with a diminishing role thanks to the peace dividend . |
| 19 | Yes , they 've got a week or two to get it together and send it in , but we know from what people have pledged that that 's what we can expect at least , and that 's from over a thousand cyclists ranging from , I saw one child in a seat behind their parents on a bike , up to an eighty nine year old lady from Brill who cycled for the first time in years and really enjoyed it . |