Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [det] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 2 | Probably creative work was all the real satisfaction he obtained in those stressful years . |
| 3 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 4 | It is sometimes obscure and the writer confesses with some shame that he possessed for some forty years a Tudor binding with the cunningly interwoven initials ‘ R.B. ’ — those of an unidentified London binder working c.1550–81 . |
| 5 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |