Example sentences of "[noun] of the [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese community who live on the reef have been awarded the Peter Scott Merit Award in recognition of the 11 years they have spent fighting the development . |
| 2 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 3 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 4 | So you 're not bothered if at the end of the two years they have n't even |
| 5 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
| 6 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |