Example sentences of "the years [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost 25,000 balls has he sent down in Test cricket , and although Sir Richard Hadlee , in an otherwise gracious radio tribute immediately after the 400th wicket had been bagged , pointed to the greater number of Tests and deliveries needed by the Indian , it is by assessing the amount of support from the other end over the years that we gain a full picture of Kapil 's place in history : he has carried India 's bowling almost throughout his career . |
| 2 | In terms of American provenance , we have sent so much material across the Atlantic over the years that we are often called up by someone who has discovered our label on their piece with a view to our buying it back . |
| 3 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 4 | As for my hon. Friend 's other question , I confirm that it is as a result of this Government 's economic policies and the growth achieved over the years that we have secured not only higher public spending but a substantial reduction in direct taxes . |
| 5 | You know , I think we 've that nobody keeps us We 've had a name over the years that we 're an expensive carrier , and it 's just sort of keep going and educating them that we 've come down in the market or , |
| 6 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 9 | Right , erm so do you think the place has changed much in the years that you 've worked here ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Then , in the years that you were away , he met Emma and married her . |
| 12 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 13 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 14 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 15 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 16 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 17 | It is a condition that has so worsened over the years that I no longer dare perform introductions I simply mumble ’ You two must know each other ’ and leave them to sort it out . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 20 | I understand why the hon. Gentleman may be frothing at the mouth at the thought that , after all the years that he has spent preparing as shadow arts Minister , were the Labour party to be elected — horror of horrors — it would not be him but Melvyn ’ Time to Dance ’ Bragg who would be Labour 's arts Minister . |
| 21 | I have found over the years that it is immensely helpful to take time out and try to think things through , and I would imagine that most other managers do the same , even though all of us are heavily action-orientated . |
| 22 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 23 | 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 . |