Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 2 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 3 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 4 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |
| 5 | Is it eleven years today she |
| 6 | During his remaining years here he continued to be active as a Justice of the Peace . |
| 7 | ‘ Yet in his six years here he has won two championship medals and made a big contribution . |
| 8 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 9 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 10 | In our fifty years together we both worked out plans and decisions without any friction . |