Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years we " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years we prospered , until the slump of 1930 , followed by another setback in 1933 , when the Nazis first appeared , and the final blow when the World War II commenced . |
| 2 | During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth 's poetic achievement . |
| 3 | For many years we in Britain thought of church growth as building bigger buildings for more people . |
| 4 | For many years we rarely saw any wild-caught Cichlasoma , but this is no longer the case . |
| 5 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 6 | For many years we had a well known er . |
| 7 | For example , for many years we in ICI considered that we were too thinly spread and too diverse both in technological and in geographical terms . |
| 8 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 9 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 10 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 11 | During those years we met for ‘ reunions ’ in New York and London and it was always wonderful to see her . |
| 12 | Over many years we have together worked towards the day when all the people of South Africa are able to vote for a government of their choice and be in control of their own destiny . |
| 13 | For several years we drove all the way down from Hertfordshire to Cornwall , very slowly , starting in the early hours of the morning and arriving about tea-time , if we were lucky . |
| 14 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |