Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 2 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 4 | In the following year , ninety one ninety two , the number of applications held steady , but the total fee income declined slightly and in nineteen ninety two ninety three , whilst the number of applications fell slightly , the fee income fell considerably , so that in ninety two ninety three er there were more applications than in the , th the first of those , of those years that I quoted , but the fee income was twenty five percent down . |
| 5 | Of the males in Norway , one of the best of recent years that I have particularly liked was Norwegian Ch. |
| 6 | ( Perhaps their paintings said things to one another during these years that they could never say in person . ) |
| 7 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 8 | Erm , I wonder if this is a matter which budget review might wish to keep on a continuing brief , so that , to satisfy themselves that the , this council is in fact making progress , and will be in a position to satisfy the district auditor in future years that we are er , taking on board the comments that he 's making and er , moving forward . |
| 9 | In 1848 an experienced mines inspector and engineer could write in A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries : ‘ Explosions of gas have unfortunately become so numerous in late years that it would be impossible in the absence of specific records to enumerate them . ’ |
| 10 | It was the first time in fourteen years that he was travelling alone , his best friend having died of pneumonia only weeks before . |
| 11 | Austen Chamberlain was equally enthusiastic at the time , but later put the occasion into somewhat more critical perspective by saying that it was the only time in fourteen years that he had ever known Baldwin to influence a Cabinet decision . |
| 12 | The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre . |
| 13 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 14 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |
| 15 | Steve Cropper says that Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt are the only two artists in recent years that he 's watched from the audience — which is either a massive compliment , or an indication of the number of gigs our Steve attends these days . |
| 16 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 17 | So much has been written concerning this question in recent years that it would waste space to reiterate arguments as to the moral , sociological , psychological and medical aspects of the problem . |
| 18 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
| 19 | In fact , I did n't know until recent years that it was a person at Philips Records who in fact mentioned DeFries to David , and when he did meet DeFries , Angela was very much in favour of David moving from me to him . |
| 20 | Dr Paul Altmann of the Kidney Unit at the London Hospital in Whitechapel is reported as saying : ‘ It is when you are absorbing aluminium over many years that it is potentially damaging . |
| 21 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
| 22 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 23 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 24 | A Jockey Club inquiry rejected the claims of 57-year-old Ken Evans Aintree recall man for seven years that he waved his red flag to stop riders in the two false starts . |