Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 2 | As his hand reaches out for mine , I recollect that at one point in those early post-war years I had a positive dread of men in uniform , and my terror grew in direct proportion with each extra pip . |
| 3 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 4 | In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency . |
| 5 | External examiners ( to whom in these formative years we were heavily indebted ) spoke well of what they saw . |
| 6 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 7 | At each stage of Tranmere 's rise up the Football League these past years you have asked the question : ‘ Will Steve Mungall be able to cope at this level ? ’ |
| 8 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 9 | And so for forty long weary years they wander around as nomads in a wilderness ! |
| 10 | What kind of community has it been , having lived here having had so many years in which you 've actually had I mean ei either lived here for forty years plus erm from many other years you 've actually been working here in addi in addition . |
| 11 | ‘ And four of those bloody years I spend in a bloody prison-camp — if you 'll pardon the expression . |
| 12 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 13 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |
| 14 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 15 | The war had proved Dobbie 's exceptional ability as a staff officer and for nine of the ten following years he served in staff appointments in the Rhine Army , Aldershot , the War Office , and Western Command . |
| 16 | He loved me , and I loved him — we were everything to each other , those brief years we had . ’ |
| 17 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 18 | For two long years I lived the life of a slave . |
| 19 | After thirty long years it was time to forget the past . |
| 20 | Everybody will be aware of the fact that in the course of the last two budgetary years we have made savings in excess of what we had anticipated . |