Example sentences of "[prep] those [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 2 | The practised assurance of those long years of marriage came into its own . |
| 3 | During the course of those long years ( in 1847 , to be precise , the year after Flaubert was recalling his Trouville sunsets to Louise ) Gertrude had promised to love , honour and obey someone else : an English economist called Charles Tennant . |
| 4 | Thus , five years after Imo 's invention , 80% of the macaques in the troop between the ages of 2 and 7 washed potatoes ; but only 18% of those eight years or more washed potatoes , and all 18% were females . |
| 5 | Experience the sights , the sounds and even the smells of those dangerous years . |
| 6 | You will experience the sights , the sounds , even the smells of those dangerous years . |
| 7 | ‘ And four of those bloody years I spend in a bloody prison-camp — if you 'll pardon the expression . |
| 8 | Mr. J.T. Stanley had been Head of Art since 1949 , and as Form Master of 1A for most of those thirty years , was the introduction to School for almost half the annual intake . |
| 9 | Mostly , she was off ; travelling the world with Mr Gibbon , her constant companion for twenty-nine of those thirty years . |
| 10 | Pearce is convinced the experience of those early years had important universal lessons of which any young graduate entering industry today ought to take heed . |
| 11 | The programmes of those early years explored the whole range of possibilities offered by civil nuclear power and paved the way for the growth of a domestic industry capable of mastering the entire fuel cycle from the mine through enrichment to reprocessing . |
| 12 | So what fundamentally came out of those early years was this sense of community . |
| 13 | Despite the material and social disadvantages that Harry had suffered as a child , he still seemed to think of those early years as happy ones . |
| 14 | Her early education had been poor because of the misconception amongst her teachers that language ability and intelligence were somehow different facts of a single concept , and it was only in later life , with the help of her husband , that she 'd been able to make up on the intellectual deprivation of those early years . |
| 15 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 16 | Everyone from the governor to the humblest creeping ‘ trustie ’ knew that Michael Holly would serve only a minimal proportion of those fifteen years . |
| 17 | The late Earl Spencer said : ‘ How many of those fourteen years were happy ? |
| 18 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
| 19 | There were exaggerated expectations for one thing , a more or less inevitable consequence of those golden years . |
| 20 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I was a very sickly child , and so my memories of those first years are dark . |
| 23 | Most of those ten years which had bound us together were spent out of doors . ’ |
| 24 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |
| 25 | For Edward , it was a bed-sitter in Bayswater , the rioting children of the secondary modern and the distresses of those disturbing years . |
| 26 | She began to see herself , the self of those twenty years ago , as just a part of Willi and Gerda 's pleasure . |
| 27 | There will no longer be a requirement to include an accountant 's report in listing particulars or circulars unless there has been a significant change in the company 's financial position within the last three financial years , or its accounts in any of those three years have been qualified . |
| 28 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 29 | At a concelebrated mass , Bishop Gray presided and with Father Brendan McDonald , who opened the school , the present parish priest , Father David Peters , Father David Woodler , Father Paul O'Grady , and a packed congregation , gave thanks for the many achievements of those 25 years . |
| 30 | Throughout those heady years in the middle twenties in which the young men were creating modern quantum theory , Niels Bohr played a role which was a mixture of elder statesman and father-confessor . |