Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mousy hair , on the other hand , had been eroded by the years . |
| 2 | Vietnamese Communism had to cope with the problems of economic reconstruction in an area devastated by the years of war , and also with the integration of the South into the methods of social administration and economic management that were used in the North . |
| 3 | What we think of as us has been fashioned by the years of work . |
| 4 | New York-born , he has based himself in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , an unfashionable choice by any standards , inspired by the years he spent there studying art and then drama . |
| 5 | During the early post-war period , the twenty-year period from 1951 to 1971 , as evidenced by the years 1951 , 1961 and 1971 , there was little reporting of rape outside of the News of the World . |
| 6 | Although the developments outlined above might go some way towards encouraging parents and politicians to regard teachers as ‘ professional ’ much more will need to be done to repair the damage caused by the years of industrial dispute . |
| 7 | When every fixed point on the map has been obliterated by the years we 've spent together , and we wonder how the hell we ever met … ’ |