Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] years [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 2 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 3 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 4 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 5 | Most of those ten years which had bound us together were spent out of doors . ’ |
| 6 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 7 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 8 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 9 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |