Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the years " in BNC.

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1 Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome .
2 Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’
3 Why do you think these mentions of him kept cropping up over the years ?
4 Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years .
5 The night before , Kalchu and Sigarup went to the shrine , lit the oil lamp and tied two strips of new cloth — one red , one white — on to the rafters among the hundreds of old and blackened ones that had gathered there over the years .
6 Channel shares had varied somewhat over the years , quite apart from the changes caused by the introduction of BBC2 and Channel 4 ( Table 6.18 ) .
7 Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed .
8 She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years .
9 Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations .
10 The various Right-On movements , especially the women 's movement , had grown enormously during the years of the Wilson-Callaghan government .
11 The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable .
12 The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 .
13 It was small and poky , the carpet stank of sweat from all the bands that had rehearsed there over the years , the floor was rotten and covered with fungus More unpleasant smells came from the toilet that did n't work and the leaking skylight which let in so much rain the whole place was always damp .
14 But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years .
15 Security had changed drastically over the years .
16 Of course , the street had changed mightily in the years since her birth in 1909 , the year King Emperor Edward the Seventh died .
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