Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may be amused — though not very — that after living in Italy for forty-five years Max still could not speak Italian , but such insularity is not to be imitated . |
| 2 | Going on to the inter-war years the authors note that there was no great reduction in the number of incidents reported in the press , despite the reputation of the large crowds of those years fur generally good behaviour . |
| 3 | During these years Wordsworth also began The Ruined Cottage ; this was later incorporated into Book i of The Excursion and suffered considerable modification . |
| 4 | For many years lap-steels far outsold Spanish-style guitars ; in fact , the first electric guitars of the late '20s and early '30s were nearly all Hawaiian-style instruments . |
| 5 | That is not systematic momegliture that has gone like that for ten years universities still use it ! |
| 6 | We 're working at things which the players might not appreciate at the moment but they will in 10 years time when they look back on what they have achieved . |
| 7 | In 50 years time when they celebrate the 100th anniversary , they 'll have an aid , a time capsule containing photographs and documents about the life of today 's garrison , buried will bring back the memories . |
| 8 | In those years socialism finally ceased to look undeniably left-wing , whether east or west of the Iron Curtain ; and if fiction changed its politics in that age , so did the world around it . |
| 9 | The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , Arbeau , Frescobaldi , Froberger — in those years people suddenly realized that there had been music before 1700 . ’ |
| 10 | Now what that actually means is that in ten years time when that money matures , that policy matures |
| 11 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 12 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 13 | But my surgeon says my back should be considerably stronger in two years time so who knows , maybe I 'll be able to make a comeback after sorting my life out . |