Example sentences of "in [adj] the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In half the years covered by counts a distinct double peak has been evident during the autumn movements , in August/September , and again between late October and early December . |
| 2 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In all the years that The End magazine was printed in Liverpool , we never received a single letter about ‘ trainers ’ in America , but we did get hundreds about the training shoes the different football crews were wearing . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ In all the years I 've been here , nothing will beat this . |
| 7 | In all the years that Don Roberto had acted as his Control when on loan to the CIA , the elderly Englishman had never mentioned Trent 's mother . |
| 8 | In the succeeding years of the first scheme , and in all the years of the second , cII is necessarily smaller than , and greater than . |
| 9 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 10 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 11 | Then , walking away in disgust , he said , ‘ I 've never come across such a disgraceful congregation in all the years I 've given burial services . ’ |
| 12 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 13 | Never before , in all the years of his work upon the project , has Christo been championed by the Bundestag 's president , but , paradoxically , Dr Suessmuth 's position of authority may be as much a hindrance as an advantage to his cause . |
| 14 | In 1967 Ron Gorchov dreamed up a uniquely curved and hinged frame to support the canvas on which he paints and in all the years since then he has never wavered from its use , though it has appeared in a wide variety of sizes and variations . |
| 15 | In all the years , and I 've been it 's secretary now for fifteen years and I have n't had any trouble . |
| 16 | In all the years he had not had one really happy day because Anthea was always the boss . |
| 17 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 18 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 19 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 20 | ‘ In all the years you 've known me , I 've never taken what was n't mine , ’ he said in a hard voice . |
| 21 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 22 | It occurred to Helen — listening to Louise , contemplating the chest — that in all the years she and Edward had lived at Greystones they had fully occupied only their own bedrooms ; elsewhere , they perched . |
| 23 | But do you know , Norman , in all the years that Halifax held office I never met him once . ’ |
| 24 | Between 1850 and 1870 , 50,000 miles of new line were laid in Europe , as against 15,000 in all the years before . |
| 25 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 26 | That 's what is was it was a terrible system there , but that was the system , that was the system they carried through the quarries in all the years that are gone . |
| 27 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 28 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 29 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |
| 30 | My father never visited Jubilee Street Elementary once in all the years I was there , but Granpa used to pop along at least once a term and have a word with Mr Cartwright my teacher . |