Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] many years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before . |
| 2 | Pavlov demonstrated this many years ago . |
| 3 | He reminded us of our debt to those whose labour supported our studies and I recalled this many years later when , passing through Harvard , I read the inscription commemorating the foundation of its college in order that future generations might be spared an unlettered clergy . |
| 4 | There was a Dylan Thomas in Hopper , not just in his abilities but in his self-destruct mechanism and it was a great pity in many ways that he spent so many years in James Dean 's gloomy black shadow , because he is talented and perhaps even more diverse . |
| 5 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 6 | It is very probable that the seed sown on that day in Alloway , blossomed so many years later , and was harvested as the kernel of a fruit of genius . |
| 7 | It is ever associated in my mind with a scene I witnessed there many years ago . |