Example sentences of "years they had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three years they had neither met nor spoken . |
| 2 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 3 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 4 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 5 | Over the years they had often made love like this , in his back bedroom when the parents were in the house — Rachel seemed to enjoy the danger — although never on the floor before ! |