Example sentences of "in the [adj] years i [vb past] " 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 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 3 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 4 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 5 | 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 . |