Example sentences of "those [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And four of those bloody years I spend in a bloody prison-camp — if you 'll pardon the expression . |
| 2 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 3 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |
| 4 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 5 | He loved me , and I loved him — we were everything to each other , those brief years we had . ’ |
| 6 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |