Example sentences of "years [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Omnibus 's simplistic script favoured show-and-tell over analysis but that dangerous moral — that these years were a triumph of popular taste in art , not a suppression of it — could be glimpsed now and then . |
| 2 | The next four and a half years were a waking nightmare for the Keenans , especially for Brian 's sisters Brenda Gillham and Elaine Spence . |
| 3 | Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use . |
| 4 | In fact the war years were a period of mixed fortunes for cotton manufacture . |
| 5 | It can not be entirely coincidental that these years were a time of important new developments in both the Church and the Mercian kingdom . |
| 6 | She had decided that six years was a price worth paying . |
| 7 | She worked for 25 years at the Burtons Biscuit factory , now based at Sighthill , and for many years was a union branch secretary . |
| 8 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 9 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 10 | Radio in France in the inter-war years was a hybrid : private stations competed against the state network . |
| 11 | One example my coal hole accommodated for nigh on ten years was a case of Krug I bought after a successful poker evening . |
| 12 | Tony Jacklin 's first major win for several years was a tonic . |
| 13 | The subsequent depression-hit fifteen years was a period of very slow progress in welfare innovation , particularly in the case of pensions . |
| 14 | But five years was a lifetime , and every day Edward loved Anna more . |