Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] years [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 2 | There were quite a few of these old Fenian diehards around , still bitter after all those years about their humiliating defeat , still hating the Catholic Church for its condemnation of their movement . |
| 3 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 4 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 5 | The figure of Moses , the key figure for Freud in Judaism , seemed to preoccupy him in these last years of his life , and it is only understandable that people see Freud as still wrestling with his own father in this intellectual activity . |
| 6 | Much against Florence 's advice , Late Lyrics and Earlier opened with an Apology in which he expressed surprise that ‘ in these disordered years of our prematurely afflicted century ’ critics should still find fault with his ‘ frank exploration of reality ’ . |
| 7 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |