Example sentences of "[prep] years they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of years they adopted a child which they named Peggy , of whom he was very fond . |
| 2 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 3 | Over the past couple of years they have waited patiently while the Microsoft and IBM products converged . |
| 4 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 5 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 6 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 7 | For years they went on and on and on and everything they took and that was from eight o'clock in the morning was either from Marks and Spencers or British Home Stores . |
| 8 | For years they had lived with his mounting paranoia , the ever-more-irrational purges of his intimates , then entering an even more extreme phase with the totally imaginary ‘ Doctors ' Plot ’ . |
| 9 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 10 | For years they taunted bitter cross-town rivals Linfield for being a sectarian football club , for making Windsor Park a no-go area for Catholics . |
| 11 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 12 | For years they suffered in silence while barriers were pranged , concrete bollards damaged and other cars blocked in as the 23-year-old careered around looking for a space in the car park . |
| 13 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 14 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 15 | For years they have educated and delighted us . |
| 16 | For years they have marched , waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege . |
| 17 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 18 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 19 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |