Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
2 | Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see . |
3 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
4 | In well under the two years they had allowed themselves , the appeal had a total of £54 million with a further £30 million promised by the government . |
5 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
6 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
7 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
8 | 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 . |