Example sentences of "so [det] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 2 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 3 | After so many years I kept up this contact , especially with one or two who were real friends . |
| 4 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 5 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 6 | A strange phenomenon of bamboo is that , dependent on which variety , after so many years it flowers and then dies . |
| 7 | It might n't seem like a happy arrangement but after so many years it 's become one . |
| 8 | Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ? |