Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 2 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 3 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 4 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 5 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 6 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 7 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 8 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
| 9 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
| 10 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 11 | After thirty long years it was time to forget the past . |
| 12 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 13 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 14 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 15 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 16 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |