Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 2 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 3 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 4 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 5 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |