Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] year that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 2 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
| 3 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 4 | It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there . |
| 5 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |