Example sentences of "years that [pron] [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’
2 It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point .
3 Anyway it 's the first time since the Revie years that we 've won 5 on the trot in the league so lets just be happy for a while .
4 The advertising 's actually larger than other products are currently spent on their advertising but w we feel that with the launch of a new product and trying to catch eight and a half percent of the mar market over erm three years that we do need to spend heavily in the department so like I say that 's forty percent .
5 As for my hon. Friend 's other question , I confirm that it is as a result of this Government 's economic policies and the growth achieved over the years that we have secured not only higher public spending but a substantial reduction in direct taxes .
6 Right , erm so do you think the place has changed much in the years that you 've worked here ?
7 Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ?
8 Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said .
9 ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said .
10 It 's the first time in years that I 've enjoyed the charts .
11 I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend .
12 It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk .
13 It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute .
14 ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added .
15 However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good .
16 In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war .
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