Example sentences of "in [adj] years we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
| 2 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 3 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 4 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 5 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 6 | In two years we went from a £32m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £150m , to a £14m loss . |