Example sentences of "[prep] years as " in BNC.
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| 1 | First — The Spanish Government and Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza will create a new Private Cultural Foundation under Spanish law , domiciled in Madrid , to which the Spanish Government will provide rent-free ( for the same parallel term of years as the loan mentioned in Clause Three below ) the use of the Villahermosa Palace and which will be endowed by the Spanish Government with sufficient capital for the refurbishment of the Palace and to provide all necessary financial resources to ensure the independence of the Foundation and to ensure that it is able to meet all its artistic and curatorial commitments . |
| 2 | Er I played the game for a good number of years as well . |
| 3 | Yeah but I suppose it 's the term of years as well . |
| 4 | It is not true to say that a menstruating woman is unclean — she has a status of tameh , a word which has been wrongly translated for years as ‘ unclean ’ but which would be much better translated as ‘ impure ’ . |
| 5 | The Northern Ireland government had had a bad press for years as have had all weak and well-meaning governments in a classical revolutionary situation whether they were Stuart , Bourbon , Romanov or more modern . |
| 6 | Off-licences fear this could be their worst Christmas for years as booze prices are forced up . |
| 7 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |
| 8 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |