Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] years [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken her four years to meet him and within an hour it was all over . |
| 2 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 3 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 4 | I do n't think he did anything in his later years did he ? |
| 5 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |