Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [that] [pers pn] [verb] " 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 | In the following year , ninety one ninety two , the number of applications held steady , but the total fee income declined slightly and in nineteen ninety two ninety three , whilst the number of applications fell slightly , the fee income fell considerably , so that in ninety two ninety three er there were more applications than in the , th the first of those , of those years that I quoted , but the fee income was twenty five percent down . |
| 3 | Of the males in Norway , one of the best of recent years that I have particularly liked was Norwegian Ch. |
| 4 | Austen Chamberlain was equally enthusiastic at the time , but later put the occasion into somewhat more critical perspective by saying that it was the only time in fourteen years that he had ever known Baldwin to influence a Cabinet decision . |
| 5 | The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre . |
| 6 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 7 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
| 8 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
| 9 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 10 | A Jockey Club inquiry rejected the claims of 57-year-old Ken Evans Aintree recall man for seven years that he waved his red flag to stop riders in the two false starts . |