Example sentences of "during the [adj] years [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 2 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 3 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 4 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 5 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |