Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 2 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 3 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 4 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 5 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 6 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 8 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |