Example sentences of "during [art] [adj] years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 4 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 5 | He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her . |
| 6 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 7 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 8 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 9 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 10 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 11 | 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 . |