Example sentences of "[det] [adj] year they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 2 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 3 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 4 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 5 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 6 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 7 | wrote to all the same places again this year and the response we got back from the schools was that this particular year they 've got nobody coming forward who they consider would |
| 8 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 9 | Carrie thought of bombs falling , of the war going on all this year they 'd been safe in the valley ; going on over their heads like grown-up conversation when she 'd been too small to listen . |
| 10 | and all these years they spend . |
| 11 | During the autumn and winter of that dramatic year they put themselves at the forefront of agitation for more effective air raid precautions , and used their influence in the war factories to defend workers ’ living standards while criticizing the inefficiency of management . |
| 12 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 13 | That same year they took up that old chestnut , the inspection of laundries attached to Roman Catholic ( and now Anglican ) nunneries ; they were annoyed that these had been excluded from the Factory Bill then before Parliament . |
| 14 | It is not such a mystery really , as the Treasury admitted after Mr Lamont had finished his speech that next year they plan to borrow £44 billion . |