Example sentences of "in years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan .
2 It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali .
3 For the first time in years she had someone she could rely on .
4 For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man .
5 Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book .
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