Example sentences of "those years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During those years we met for ‘ reunions ’ in New York and London and it was always wonderful to see her . |
| 2 | The consensus is that although conditions at flowering were similar to those years which triggered the Moulin saga , a repeat with any particular variety this season is unlikely . |
| 3 | Having displayed in this clear format what has been happening , you will then be able to interpret the general trend , and raise questions regarding those years which proved to be exceptions to the overall picture . |
| 4 | Moreover , it has already been argued ( in Chapter 1 ) that there was a combination of influences at work internationally during those years which was conducive to rapid expansion , some of which arose directly from the war . |
| 5 | How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still , intranced with admiration ( while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula ) , to hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! |
| 6 | As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read . |
| 7 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 9 | Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male . |
| 10 | I have a watertight cover for all those years I was with the Black June . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know , all those years I watched my Kate yearn for you , it used to amaze me . |
| 12 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 13 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 14 | All those years I had been away . |
| 15 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 16 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 17 | And Jenny said all those years I had a crush on that teacher she said and I thought he never noticed me . |
| 18 | All those years I was there |
| 19 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 20 | ’ But those years he would go into his study afterwards with the coffee her mother made , to smoke his pipe and look over a case , and he shut the door . |
| 21 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 22 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 23 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 24 | Throughout those years there was a constant building and re-building programme at Howard . |
| 25 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 26 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
| 27 | In those years it is the sudden traumatic experience which may be the spark to engage fierce enthusiasms in their educational development . |
| 28 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
| 29 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 30 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |