Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 2 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 3 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 4 | In the subsequent years they have appeared in losing finals against Tyrone 1984 , Derry 1987 and Donegal 1990 . |
| 5 | We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work . |
| 6 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |