Example sentences of "grown [prep] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 2 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 3 | His preoccupation with conservation has grown over the years , but even then it was nothing new . |
| 4 | This list has grown over the years . |
| 5 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 6 | How now to understand my passion for Glasgow that has grown over the years of absence from Scotland ? |
| 7 | Boast he occasionally might , but that was part of his childlike pride in the continued expansion of his wholesale fancy goods business ; from a weekly round of nearby villages it had grown over the years into a limited-liability company with an extensive warehouse and a solid share of the city 's and province 's retail market . |
| 8 | And then — and the memory was fleeting , but it had grown over the years — then she had reached to the boy … |
| 9 | Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries . |