Example sentences of "years that [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explanation of these apparent omissions seems to lie in the forty years that separate the story , which extends to include the first Reform Bill in 1832 , from the date of its publication shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill in 1861 . |
| 2 | I 've been reared on Christmasses and New Years that deserve the label ‘ silly season ’ , when news editors scrabble among the Christmas morning swimmers and the New Year 's Eve drink statistics to cobble up a headline , but this sudden toppling of Evil Empires and establishment of Free Democracies ( poor souls ! |
| 3 | There are likely to be a number of crucial calculations within the next few years that have the possibility of showing that the theory is no good . |
| 4 | It is usually the teenage years that create the biggest parental conflicts over friends . |
| 5 | In the seventy-seven years that divide the publication of Pamela from the death of Jane Austen , houses have a homogeneous being for the novelist . |
| 6 | In the seventy-seven subsequent years that divide the publication of Sketches by Boz and the accession of Queen Victoria from the outbreak of the First World War , fictional houses are seen rather than sensed , until the burden of acquisition , despite attempts to redeem it , becomes a tyranny which ultimately destroys the Victorian notion of ‘ home ’ . |