Example sentences of "he [vb past] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an apprentice plumber he endured years of chilblains and chapped hands due to constant submersion in cold water until he set himself up in business in London . |
| 2 | They exchanged photographs before they met , but when I first saw him he looked years older and much fatter than in his photo and now it 's emerged that he 's 48 and divorced . |
| 3 | Though determined as ever he had more wisdom and caution than he had years ago . |
| 4 | He had years of sailing experience behind him . |
| 5 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |