Example sentences of "all the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 2 | As he approached his defeated enemy , he felt no sense of triumph , which surprised him after all the frustrating years of hunting him down . |
| 3 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 4 | However , through all the long years of the Unix wars , Tivoli 's offering seemed to be the only thing that all the key parties could agree on . |
| 5 | However , through all the long years of the Unix wars Tivoli seemed to be the only thing that all the key parties could agree on . |
| 6 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 7 | He had not wanted to see her once in all the long years . |
| 8 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 9 | ‘ Not in all the four years ? ’ |
| 10 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 11 | For all the eight years I attended school in Parma there was always the problem of where to eat the midday meal at that time no school in Italy provided lunches . |
| 12 | Whatever social class we ascribe to Benjamin the Silversmith will be open to some degree of misinterpretation ; it has been said that ‘ The sixty years of Queen Victoria 's reign were above all the sixty years of the middle-class man ’ , and we could apply that statement to our man 's ability to consolidate and improve upon his standing in society . |
| 13 | This developing and deepening exploration of the world through a marriage of language and the senses is not all the primary years should provide . |
| 14 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |
| 15 | After all the grey years , she was beginning to feel marvellously alive again , and she suddenly laughed out loud . |
| 16 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 17 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 18 | The two men were enjoying a condition of harmony which had been unknown in all the previous years . |
| 19 | No , I mean all the fourth years last year you was allowed to out and go ice skating and things like that and this year we did n't get nothing . |
| 20 | In all the post-war years , both currents have been present . |