Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 2 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 3 | What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It must also be said that during these early years , in the 1870s , there was little hostile reaction from most of the men . |
| 6 | The basis of that conception must be that citizenship begins at twenty-one ; that up to that age all boys and girls are wards of the State and are to be regarded as in a state of tutelage ; and that during these twenty-one years no effort must be spared to give each one according to his capacities , and limited by no other considerations , the fullest opportunity to develop every innate power . |
| 7 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 8 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 9 | that it came as no surprise that after six busy years with the Association she was appointed Deputy Head Teacher of the Doncaster School for the Deaf and Director of its Further Education Department . |
| 10 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 11 | Why is it , do you think , that after all these years , the dominant sound around Ali is silence ? |
| 12 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 13 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 15 | The manner of the defeat and the Forest fans ' reaction to it signalled that after 18 trophy-filled years under Brian Clough , the club could really be in trouble . |
| 16 | When they elected PAS , they knew that after 12 lavish years of UMNO rule , development spending might decrease . |
| 17 | An impression is provided by Fuller : " I am sorry to hear and loath to believe , what some credible persons have told me , that within these 20 years the copper within this country hath beet , wholly discontinued , and that not for want of metal , but mining it . |
| 18 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 19 | More serious is the allegation that in these latter years Ghana was allowed to accumulate extravagant debts : an amount of £500 million is often quoted , though the true figure seems to have been about £120 million . |
| 20 | In view of Nietzsche 's subsequent adulation of Wagner , it is important to recognize that in these early years his predilections lay elsewhere . |
| 21 | There are many who would say that in these closing years |
| 22 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 23 | I am confident that in some ten years time , Save The Children will be a strong pan-European organisation , perhaps the strongest as such within the European Community . |
| 24 | I suspect that in another hundred years ' time people will look back and wonder at our apparent inability to regard sound recordings as permanent media , like books , music , or paintings . |
| 25 | If , after a stiff swig of nectar , we were to watch further developments , we 'd find that in another 100,000 years or so , or even longer , exactly the same thing would happen again , and the compass would swing back suddenly to its original position . |
| 26 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
| 27 | The scales fell from his eyes and he saw that over many long years of prehistory , all trackways were in straight lines marked out by experts on a sighting system . |