Example sentences of "[adj] [det] years she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 2 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 3 | By about 1930 she had ceased painting , though for several more years she made small , colourful , increasingly abstract water-colours . |
| 4 | But during these last few years she had felt tired , weary . |
| 5 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |