Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 2 | This practical involvement led naturally into five years spent as production manager at the Wandsworth factory , just before M & B moved to Dagenham in Essex in 1934 . |
| 3 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 4 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 5 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 6 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 7 | He would be about 16 years old then but his sources of pleasure changed little with advancing years though his opportunities became less … . |
| 8 | But users ' manufacturer preferences changed little from previous years : 90.4% chose IBM , followed by Digital Equipment Corp at 45.6% , Hewlett-Packard Co at 43% , NCR Corp 41.1% . |
| 9 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 10 | The review was triggered when the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed its intention to ban further use of maneb , mancozeb and zineb on most foods because the fungicides , used widely for 40 years , have been strongly linked with cancer . |
| 11 | Dr Tyrrell 's unit on Salisbury Plain , which closed for financial reasons in 1990 , tried unsuccessfully for 44 years to find a cure for the common cold , conducting experiments on more than 18,000 volunteers . |
| 12 | The pair 's success leaves only two 8,000 metre peaks without British ascents : Makalu , tried frequently in recent years , and Hidden Peak . |
| 13 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 14 | New research from Grendon 's psychology department shows 33% of Grendon graduates offended again within 2 years of being released , compared to 40% from normal prisons . |
| 15 | He it was who premièred Symphonies Nos. 5 , 6 , 8 , 9 and 10 ( the Erato booklet claims 4 , 5 , 8 , 9 , 10 and 11 ) and although relations between composer and conductor cooled markedly in later years , for reasons not , I think , fully explained , the authority of performances is undiminished . |
| 16 | She studied there for three years with Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks [ qq.v. ] , winning a certificate for figure drawing ( 1896–7 ) and the Melvill Nettleship prize for figure composition ( 1897–8 ) . |
| 17 | Not only has the British government and its agencies borrowed less in recent years than other European governments , it is also the case that , until recently , the private bond market was narrow . |
| 18 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 19 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 20 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 21 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |
| 22 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 23 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 24 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 25 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 26 | I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years . |
| 27 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 28 | FIVE years after the death of the man she loved passionately for 30 years , Marje Proops still carries his photograph in her handbag . |
| 29 | If the Primera does as well as the old Bluebird — 325,000 sold here helping to top 1.8m Nissans sold here in 22 years — they wo n't complain . |
| 30 | The Marshalls , a well-known family engaged in flax spinning lived here for many years and many interesting people , including Wordsworth and Adam Sedgwick , were visitors . |