Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 2 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 3 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 4 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 5 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |