Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For hundreds of years it has all been exactly the same . |
| 2 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 3 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 4 | But if you 're stuck on Scale 1 for years you do n't feel in a position to try anything new . |
| 5 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 6 | He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis . |
| 7 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 8 | He was idle for years you know . |
| 9 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 10 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 11 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |