Example sentences of "those years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach . |
| 2 | Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week . |
| 3 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |
| 4 | All those years ago he knew things and said that services should be replanned in London , but did nothing whatever about it . |
| 5 | If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention . |