Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 2 | The Japanese community who live on the reef have been awarded the Peter Scott Merit Award in recognition of the 11 years they have spent fighting the development . |
| 3 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 4 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 5 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 6 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 7 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 8 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 9 | First-timers in their millions were backing the saxophone-playing candidate from the baby-boom years they could identify with . |
| 10 | So you 're not bothered if at the end of the two years they have n't even |
| 11 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
| 12 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
| 13 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
| 14 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 15 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 16 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |