Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
| 2 | And , somehow , my savings , carefully built up over the years , were starting to run dry . |
| 3 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 4 | Presently a governor of two Suffolk schools , the task is increasingly time consuming , responsible , unpaid and costly in terms of petrol consumed ( no travel expenses paid ) , but still rewarding in terms of relationships within the schools carefully built up over the years . |
| 5 | These people have fears which the media has shamelesslessly played on over the years , but which are genuine . |