Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] years [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 2 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 3 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 4 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 5 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 6 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 7 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 8 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |