Example sentences of "the [adj] years [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response Fujimori criticised Amnesty International and the United States human rights body Americas Watch for failing to denounce the activities of Sendero Luminoso or human rights violations in the eight years before he came to power . |
| 2 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 3 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 4 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 5 | According to Bernier , who regularly visited the fort over the six years that he spent in and around Delhi : |
| 6 | Kim Il Sung 's most astonishing achievement is to have survived the 47 years since he was put in charge of the North by Stalin when Korea was divided in 1945 . |
| 7 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 8 | In the three years since he 'd last seen her she 'd grown it halfway down her back . |
| 9 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 10 | He 's done more than just survive in the 31 years since he lost his legs . |
| 11 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 12 | But I would not be true to myself if I did not record my own thanks to all who serve on the Board for their hard and devoted work and at this time , to take a moment to thank the retiring vice convenor Bill for his work , his prayers , his support , his wisdom and his fellowship over the many years that he and I have served together . |
| 13 | It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism . |
| 14 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 15 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 16 | Steinitz 's own furniture , amassed over the twenty years since he acquired the Château and its contents , accounted for one-third of the lots . |
| 17 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 18 | Pipe has achieved ever-increasing tallies in each of the 14 years since he took out a licence . |
| 19 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 20 | The evidence in the two years since he took over at the club suggests Mr O'Neill 's best efforts will be enough to secure promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 21 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 22 | In the hundred years after he died , the Pilgrim 's Progress found an increasingly wide readership among Nonconformists . |
| 23 | A survey of thirty paintings and thirty-five pastels and charcoal drawings created by Bill Jacklin in the seven years since he moved to New York in autumn 1985 opens at the Museum of Modern Art , Oxford , this month ( until 10 January 1993 ) . |
| 24 | Now in his late 40s Mr Rees says he has seen many changes in attitude to transsexuals in the 20 years since he first asked for treatment . |