Example sentences of "even [prep] [det] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 I can also listen to a conversation between mining engineers and understand ninety-five per cent of it , even after all these years .
2 For example after their early years in Britain , Sikh women were allowed to go to work but even after all these years of earning a wage they rarely make , or are consulted about , decisions made about money .
3 Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour .
4 But the furore is certain to bump up Rogan 's sales among Smiths fan who — even after all these years — are still pining for the last great rock band .
5 He did after all find Ash fascinating , even after all these years .
6 Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’
7 ‘ I still find some of the things she does difficult to understand even after all these years , but I have grasped her conviction that people have only a finite quantity of affection to give and her terror that if Anthony lets anyone new have any she will have that much less for herself .
8 ‘ It 's awe-inspiring , even after all these years … it 's poetry translated into stone , ’ she whispered , and Roman kissed her cheek , oblivious to the other holiday-makers .
9 Even after all these years .
10 Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did .
11 Even after all those years ? ’
12 Even after all those years , he thought , it 's still Master Carew .
13 The atmosphere of the Fens and the peculiarities of these strange fish , even after all those years , keep calling me back for more .
14 But not , even after another fifteen years or so , culminating in the winter of discontent and in the fall of Mr Callaghan 's administration , experience enough to induce institutions and attitudes to accommodate themselves .
15 Even in these latter years , ‘ Only three old women at church yesterday , ’ my father would greet me hopefully , as cars streamed past in all directions .
16 Even in those early years , when honest old men were tossing out such useful snippets of information as ‘ Macrobius would be the man ’ , the college did not provide soulmates of the kind Lewis always craved .
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