Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 2 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 3 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 4 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 5 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 6 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 7 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 8 | This is a landmark visible for miles along the coast ; indeed there was a protest from seafarers when in recent years it was feared the spire might need to be dismantled . |