Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 2 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 3 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 4 | Why is it , do you think , that after all these years , the dominant sound around Ali is silence ? |
| 5 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 6 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 8 | More serious is the allegation that in these latter years Ghana was allowed to accumulate extravagant debts : an amount of £500 million is often quoted , though the true figure seems to have been about £120 million . |
| 9 | He continued his studies at Leiden , where he learned of the death of his father in 1644 , and for two more years he travelled further in France and the Netherlands . |
| 10 | And for many many years nobody wrote those stories down at all . |
| 11 | From 1926 to 1930 she shared her ideas about colour with the painter Christopher Wood and for those few years their work looked similar . |
| 12 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 13 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But after many many years , the boy suddenly got worried . |
| 16 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 17 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 18 | And the birth control pill is an interesting example because it brings out the controversy and misunderstanding which there can be , because for many many years there was a great deal of talk about the risks from the birth control pill . |
| 19 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 20 | What I had been fighting for for all these years — the right for gay people to live their lives openly with dignity and respect — was actually happening , and in the most unlikely of places . |
| 21 | By about 1930 she had ceased painting , though for several more years she made small , colourful , increasingly abstract water-colours . |