Example sentences of "in the [adj] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the five years I played with Mayall , there was Hughie Flint , Aynsley Dunbar , Micky Waller , Mick Fleetwood and then Keef Hartley . |
| 2 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 3 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 4 | ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’ |
| 5 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 6 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 7 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 10 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 11 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 12 | in the million years it has been taking |
| 13 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 14 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the 27 years I have worked at the airport , sixteen of those in the fire service , I have seen a huge increase in the number of flights . |
| 17 | In the 16 years they have lived here , the kitchen has had three transformations , all carried out by John . |
| 18 | Above : The Saunders ' kitchen has had three different looks in the 16 years they have lived here , each created by John , an architectural interior engineer . |
| 19 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 20 | In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together . |
| 21 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 22 | We have , in the two years I 've been here , we have got a depth of talent in our staff that 's hard to believe . |
| 23 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 24 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 25 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 26 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 27 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 28 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
| 29 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 30 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |