Example sentences of "go [adv] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old drawers and boxes full of dusty papers going back years , anything Jeremiah Scrape wanted to keep hold of , and he 's got the key . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm going back years . |
| 3 | Tom I 'm going back years ago now . |
| 4 | But I ne I 'm going back years , 'cos I was on a diet , thinking , aw , I 'm not drinking that , its got sugar in it . |
| 5 | Well that 's how , you know , she 's going back years ago . |
| 6 | You 'd have to go back years to find a sequence of gigs as poorly attended as we 've seen recently : Frank Sinatra , Chesney Hawkes , Morrissey , Chris Rea , Lloyd Cole and Alice Cooper all played to empty rows in Dublin . |
| 7 | The heaters went down years ago . ’ |
| 8 | Class warfare , ’ my mate Mick from Middlesbrough recently told me , ‘ went out years ago . ’ |
| 9 | re I can go back years when I went there . |
| 10 | The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported . |