Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 2 | His chapter reviewing the thirty years controversy that had followed Murchison 's work demonstrates Horne 's judicial cast of mind , as the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing views are clearly set out . |
| 3 | Elsewhere also there was an increasing tendency to demarcate frontiers on the ground more clearly than ever before , as when at the end of the Thirty Years War that in Pomerania between Swedish and Brandenburg territory was marked out with boundary-stones . |
| 4 | Thanks to a growing body of business writers , executives are only too aware that , like it or not , they have the dubious privilege of being alive during a once in 200 years revolution that is transforming the business world . |
| 5 | And while were doing that , we should thank Mary for her seven years stint that she 's done on . |