Example sentences of "[adj] years she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years she had struggled to come to terms with her own emotions . |
| 2 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 3 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 4 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 5 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 6 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |
| 7 | But during these last few years she had felt tired , weary . |
| 8 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |
| 9 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 10 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 11 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 12 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 13 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 14 | During these years she made her journeys in record time . |
| 15 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
| 16 | In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis . |
| 17 | In later years she suffered severely from asthma . |
| 18 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 19 | In later years she went to Leeds and married a minister . |
| 20 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 21 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 22 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 23 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 26 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 27 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 28 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 29 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 30 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |