Example sentences of "years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ajax join English clubs in European exile , as UEFA bans the club for the next two years they qualify for Europe , as punishment for the previous week 's crowd trouble , when the Austria Vienna goalkeeper was felled by a metal spike . |
| 2 | Once every 100 years they resume their human shapes and renew their embraces ; anyone who sees them then is turned to stone . |
| 3 | With the years they had drawn closer . |
| 4 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 5 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 6 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |
| 7 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 8 | In well under the two years they had allowed themselves , the appeal had a total of £54 million with a further £30 million promised by the government . |
| 9 | For 11 years they stopped me from coming back here . |
| 10 | Yet , while the New Popsters produced a stream of memorable hit singles ( Culture Club 's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me , or Duran 's Hungry Like The Wolf ) , within three years they 'd all be defunct , or frantically searching for a new ‘ adult ’ audience . |
| 11 | After remaining in the colony for seven years they can apply for a CI which is a more widely recognised travel document and enables them to become British Dependent Territory Citizens . |
| 12 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
| 13 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 14 | In recent years they have fallen back . |
| 15 | For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike . |
| 16 | Apart from the ‘ Hands off Russia ’ campaign of 1920 he feels that the British working class had never thought or acted internationally and , ‘ For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided even with a single strike . ’ |
| 17 | For years they had lived with his mounting paranoia , the ever-more-irrational purges of his intimates , then entering an even more extreme phase with the totally imaginary ‘ Doctors ' Plot ’ . |
| 18 | After two years they die out , unable to complete with the grass and your nursery-raised seedlings , which are plug-planted into the award after the second mowing . |
| 19 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 20 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 21 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 22 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 23 | Over the years they have carved out a powerful position within the town 's antique trade . |
| 24 | Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year . |
| 25 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 27 | Alan added : ‘ While our senior managers have combined experience of over 100 years they are aged 40 and under , thus enabling us to offer the most up-to-date knowledge of shipping and air freight requirements . |
| 28 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 29 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 30 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |