Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart began to flutter … a look at the crag diagram in the guide and the quick read of the relevant bit of The Hard Years confirmed it … bloody hell it was Vember ! |
| 2 | These included Jespersen 's Primer of the English Language , a book I had not opened since my student days , and then only to shut it immediately , never in the intervening years opening it again . |
| 3 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |
| 4 | The existence of successful black sportsmen in Britain is not the recent phenomenon it is often considered to be , though the upsurge in the post-war years makes it appear that way . |
| 5 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |