Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] years when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andronikos had been digging in northern Greece for some 25 years when he discovered a vault in one of the narrow streets in the village of Virghina , west of Salonika . |
| 2 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 3 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 4 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 5 | Did you keep in touch with Sir Conrad over all those years when he was away ? ’ |