Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sandy-haired and rather fat and usually wore blue or grey tweeds , though with the passage of years she had become comfortably indifferent to dress . |
| 2 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 3 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 4 | One must n't give in to pessimism , and it 's pointless to look too far ahead , but in a couple of years she wo n't even be legal . |
| 5 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 6 | They ordered , sipped drinks , and Therese was conscious that it was the first time for years she had eaten a meal alone with a man . |
| 7 | For the first time in years she had someone she could rely on . |