Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 6 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |