Example sentences of "in the years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
| 2 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 3 | In many ways , Hegel appears to be the complete opposite of Schleiermacher — whose relations with him in the years that they were colleagues in Berlin might charitably be described as strained . |
| 4 | Right , erm so do you think the place has changed much in the years that you 've worked here ? |
| 5 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 6 | Then , in the years that you were away , he met Emma and married her . |
| 7 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |
| 8 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 9 | But then Florian Jones is your one great weakness , I suppose , since it 's obvious that you have n't learnt a thing in the years since you first got involved with him . |
| 10 | In the years since he 'd sunk into alcoholic indifference in the same job , which at his present age was less amazing . |
| 11 | I never knew her young , but she has never grown older in the years since I began to sit with this hareem . |
| 12 | Lear 's letters to Gould in the years after they parted company were long , funny , warm and chatty ; but they were also the letters of a nostalgic and lonely expatriate . |