Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 2 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 3 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 4 | For many years they had formed part of The Market Place surface . |
| 5 | For many years they were barely on grunting , let alone speaking terms . |
| 6 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 7 | In all years they included a series of national newspapers ; the Daily Mirror , The Times the News of the World the Sunday People and one local , the London Evening Standard . |
| 8 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |