Example sentences of "years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was with the Royal Ballet company for four years professionally . |
| 2 | In fact , companies which train properly and successfully over several years bitterly resent other companies which do not indulge in training taking their workers . |
| 3 | From the later middle years onward , there is some decline in the body 's production of the male hormones and this will begin to have marked effect in the seventies ; but , again , continued sexual activity will serve to keep hormonal levels up , so that it is legitimate to say that sexual activity in the man can continue — provided his health is good and the system is not impaired by disability — well into the eighth decade of life or even longer , provided he keeps in practice . |
| 4 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 5 | At the finish , the last , well she had arthritis about twenty seven years altogether but |
| 6 | Now a planning calendar 's , you 've got these planning calendars for this year and the next five years I think , or five years altogether , erm , and then you 've got some sheets called appointment details . |
| 7 | ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel . |
| 8 | The names of Robert Graves , W.H. Auden , and Christopher Isherwood may serve to remind us of English writers who seem to have reached the same dismaying conclusion over the years since . |
| 9 | The civil servants watched with barely concealed glee as the ruling party became embarrassed when the North Koreans demanded compensation not only for Japan 's colonial rule but also for all the years since . |
| 10 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 11 | Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since . |
| 12 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days were lost in strikes in the 10 years prior to 1979 and the 10 years since . |
| 14 | Is it thirteen years since . |
| 15 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 16 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 17 | She 's forgetful alright , she 's lost about thirty years somewhere . |
| 18 | Employers in Japan use all of these methods to prevent the mobility of key workers especially in deferring pay from earlier to later years thereby rewarding highly continuous service to one company . |
| 19 | The attitudes of the courts have altered , becoming more activist in recent years thereby demonstrating an increased desire to be the determinants of legal questions ; but to build an irrebuttable presumption upon less than 25 years highly equivocal judicial practice is not meaningful . |
| 20 | A spate of poor spawning years eventually produces the big fish period in the cycle . |
| 21 | Many of the women who remained in the trade until their senior years eventually became readers , with higher pay and status than they had ever enjoyed before . |
| 22 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 23 | For the next three years little more than £1,000 was sent to Bordeaux for the defence of the duchy , and Edward concentrated his attention on Brittany . |
| 24 | Whilst the company had grown significantly during the Wadeville years little could compare with the move to Germiston . |
| 25 | ‘ Yup , ’ said Lucy , nearly thirty years on , lighting a cigarette , tossing away a cloud of smoke with the word . |
| 26 | As a university teacher of English , one reads this abrasive passage , twenty-five years on , with a painful sense of recognition . |
| 27 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 28 | Thirty years on , English is a large and entrenched subject , and there is no likelihood of putting the clock back , and starting again in some other way : my proposal for a division between Cultural Studies and a degree in poetry is a pragmatic proposal for a way out of current difficulties . |
| 29 | Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement . |
| 30 | ‘ Ten years on , I am quite sure that the biggest issue we have uncovered is the issue of neglect , ’ Ms Reeves says . |