Example sentences of "these [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank uses magnetic media to archive the disks today , but is studying whether to employ optical , ‘ since we know magnetic is not terribly reliable after four years , and we must conserve these for 10 years , ’ Gilmont said . |
| 2 | He had suffered from these for seven years and had been in and out of mental hospitals many times and had received every available treatment including electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) — all to no avail . |
| 3 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 4 | ‘ It seems he 's elevated himself into the big league these past four years . |
| 5 | She could have done that any time these past four years . |
| 6 | You 've blackmailed me into spending money these past six years . |
| 7 | If Mr Street has succeeded , where owners have failed these past 70 years , in driving a coach and horses through the Rent Acts , he must be left to enjoy the benefit of his ingenuity unless and until Parliament intervenes . |
| 8 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 9 | Roma has n't changed a bit these past five years . |
| 10 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 11 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 12 | Confidence has been the critical factor in England 's success these past two years . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's been through hell these past two years trying to come to terms with the loss of his family . |
| 14 | In these past two years and more , since Matthew had been employed with David , distancing himself from the old man and returning to the family fold , Beth had never stopped hoping that one day he might turn to her with affection . |
| 15 | Not only had Cora-Beth been incredibly patient and understanding about his reluctance to become engaged these past two years , but during that period of his life she had somehow made it possible for them to renew their old easy friendship . |
| 16 | The players who have strolled through our consciousness these past 10 years are mostly with us yet , but whatever they do in the Nineties will not resound in the way that their achievements of the Eighties did . |
| 17 | For very few of these past 170 years have Greeks felt properly in command of their own country . |
| 18 | What changes have taken place in Craven Arms during these past 40 years ! |
| 19 | AT&T Co and Unix System Laboratories Inc want to be sure that no one that contributed significantly to the advance of Unix these past 24 years is overlooked at the big bash they 're throwing at UniForum ; all obscure names gratefully received . |
| 20 | a These past 3 years have reinforced for us the importance of listening to relatives . |
| 21 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 22 | Time , these past 30 years , might just as well have stood still . |
| 23 | Many of the 26,500 names would therefore love to follow the 6,000 who have already shaken the dust of Lloyd 's from their feet these past three years . |
| 24 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 25 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 26 | Some of you may have heard the rumour that my husband Malcolm and I have spent the majority of our spare time these past three years beavering away in our garage . |
| 27 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 28 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 29 | Looking about him , it was hard to imagine anything quite so different from the world he had inhabited these past ten years — a world as divorced from this simple domesticity as death is from life . |
| 30 | Pray take your leave ; you have outstayed your welcome these past ten years . ’ |