Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
2 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
3 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
4 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
5 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
6 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
7 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
8 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
9 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |