Example sentences of "year [verb] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Decades had passed with no contact and yet here were the people who had shared seven years of my adolescence ; seven years climbing the same wall bars , sitting on the same grass , staring at the same view of Box Hill out of the window .
2 Various experiments of a similar nature over several years demonstrated the same phenomenon over much greater distances .
3 Every business indicator of these years showed the same trend upwards .
4 Nor is this untypical ; statistics prepared for the past four years present the same picture .
5 It only took him another four years to feel the same way .
6 Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years .
7 The conference this year took the same theme and posed the question has anything really changed ?
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