Example sentences of "[det] [adj] years it " in BNC.
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1 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
2 | another twenty years it 's littered with people who 've failed in this . |
3 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
4 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
5 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
6 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
7 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
8 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
9 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
10 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
11 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |