Example sentences of "years [noun] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 2 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 3 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 4 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 5 | People who live near the site told appeal judge Colin Willis that music from last years event had kept them awake all night . |
| 6 | Over the years people have accused me of not being quick . |
| 7 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 8 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |