Example sentences of "[adj] years that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are so many compensations for everyone in the family during the teenage years that it is a grave mistake to look on the black side . |
| 2 | Erm , I wonder if this is a matter which budget review might wish to keep on a continuing brief , so that , to satisfy themselves that the , this council is in fact making progress , and will be in a position to satisfy the district auditor in future years that we are er , taking on board the comments that he 's making and er , moving forward . |
| 3 | For it is for ourselves and our own lost years that we grieve years , happy and sad , that will not come again . |
| 4 | It had been a recurrent problem of Edward 's early years that he lacked the resources to reward all his leading supporters , and by 1469 he was left with very little room for manoeuvre . |
| 5 | It had been a recurrent problem of Edward 's early years that he lacked the resources to reward all his leading supporters , and by 1469 he was left with very little room for manoeuvre . |
| 6 | Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds . |
| 7 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 8 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 10 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 11 | In 1848 an experienced mines inspector and engineer could write in A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries : ‘ Explosions of gas have unfortunately become so numerous in late years that it would be impossible in the absence of specific records to enumerate them . ’ |
| 12 | And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart . |
| 13 | Steve Cropper says that Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt are the only two artists in recent years that he 's watched from the audience — which is either a massive compliment , or an indication of the number of gigs our Steve attends these days . |
| 14 | Of the males in Norway , one of the best of recent years that I have particularly liked was Norwegian Ch. |
| 15 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
| 16 | In fact , I did n't know until recent years that it was a person at Philips Records who in fact mentioned DeFries to David , and when he did meet DeFries , Angela was very much in favour of David moving from me to him . |
| 17 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 18 | So much has been written concerning this question in recent years that it would waste space to reiterate arguments as to the moral , sociological , psychological and medical aspects of the problem . |