Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [det] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 2 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 3 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 4 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 5 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 6 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |