Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 2 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 3 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 4 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 5 | That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ . |
| 6 | It may be , too , that the small independents , squeezed for so many years , are starting to fight back . |
| 7 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 8 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 9 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 11 | The room was filled with books from the Library at Broadcasting House , the BBC headquarters , and the Langham Hotel opposite , which the BBC occupied for so many years . |
| 12 | It was the least one could do in gratitude for so many years of loyal friendship , and the only basis on which that friendship could continue . |
| 13 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 14 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 15 | It is extraordinary that their image of being hardworking , respectable and down-to-earth has lasted for so many years . |
| 16 | For so many years , she had been tied morning , noon and night to Jennie . |
| 17 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 18 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 19 | Mr Punch wishes to assure you that he has had many a good belly laugh from the magazine which bore his name for so many years . |
| 20 | Creditors would no longer have the absolute right of imprisoning their debtors upon a judgement over £20 ‘ which they have for so many years possessed and in some cases abused ’ . |
| 21 | When people guess at the calorie content of a portion of food they tend to underestimate the calories in meat and cheese , mainly because there was such a deeply entrenched fallacy , persisting for so many years , that ‘ protein foods ’ like this could not possibly be fattening . |
| 22 | The clue may be in the fact that you have kept fish for so many years … |
| 23 | WHEN people digest the high living styles of star England cricketers like David Gower and Ian Botham , the inference is that I must be well off too , having played alongside them for so many years . |
| 24 | His claim about South African involvement was subsequently ridiculed in the press and elsewhere in a way reminiscent of the scorn poured for so many years on the suggestion that British intelligence might have had a link with the Zinoviev letter . |
| 25 | The heavy labour not only fought the flab around his waist but cured him of the insomnia he had suffered from for so many years . |
| 26 | Then he went slowly back to within two blocks of home , drove up the back lane and stopped before the old wooden garage which he had rented for so many years from Isobel Dawson . |
| 27 | It 's difficult to imagine his rival for so many years , Margaret Thatcher , saying ‘ Hi , kid ’ to anyone . |
| 28 | We had nothing against it for others but , having both had fairly disastrous marriages previously and having lived together in reasonable harmony for so many years , it went against the grain . |
| 29 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 30 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |