Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years [conj] they " in BNC.

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1 Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years .
2 in the five years since they were first subjected to competition , Swedish Railways have transformed both their efficiency and their performance .
3 We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’
4 Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's achievements in the four years since they had joined forces were — even in an industry known for its hyperbole — sensational .
5 a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ?
6 ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let .
7 In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times ,
8 In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow .
9 Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth .
10 In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term .
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