Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conductor was Mr. L. Lambert , who had started conducting with Croydon Corporation in 1919 and for many years had been their union representative . |
| 2 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 3 | From 1985 he began evening classes and within three years had passed two O-levels and two A-levels . |
| 4 | For some time , Mrs Edwards worked in the Denbigh office of solicitors Kerfoot Owen and Company but for many years had to care for her elderly mother with whom she lived . |
| 5 | Then , Siward 's father had submitted to Olaf , but before ten years had gone by , his father had finished his dialogue with Olaf 's enemy Canute , tucked the Lapp fur-monopoly under his belt , and shared with Kalv the blows that killed King Olaf at Stiklestad . |