Example sentences of "the [adj] years she have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 2 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 3 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 4 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 5 | Despite Mrs Agathangelou 's determination to remain English , the twenty-three years she had spent in Greece had left their mark . |
| 6 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 7 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 8 | ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak . |
| 9 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |