Example sentences of "years [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 2 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 3 | Instead , the level of judicial training that is provided for Crown Court judges , as for magistrates , is fairly rudimentary , consisting of a three-day seminar for new recruits , and a refresher seminar every five years once they are permanently appointed . |
| 4 | It needed to be , with a different corps every couple of years once they became officers and a new baby born every eighteen months or so . |
| 5 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 6 | No I 've been here more than five years so they 'll have to give me five week 's notice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The British realized during the war years that they could never reap the benefits of the expected postwar boom in international civil aviation without a coherent national programme that would enable Britain to compete on equal terms with the United States . |
| 9 | ( Perhaps their paintings said things to one another during these years that they could never say in person . ) |
| 10 | Over the two hundred years that they owned the house their fortunes dwindled until the house was sold to the Hutchings family in 1736 . |
| 11 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 12 | In many ways , Hegel appears to be the complete opposite of Schleiermacher — whose relations with him in the years that they were colleagues in Berlin might charitably be described as strained . |
| 13 | And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart . |
| 14 | They told people for years that they lived like brother and sister — but no-one believed them . |
| 15 | The people of Scotland have proved for years that they support an assembly . |
| 16 | On the other hand , he said ID cards were ridiculous and confirmed what fans had known for years that they were ill- treated by uncaring clubs who were allowing grounds to fall into disrepair . |
| 17 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
| 18 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 19 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 20 | Time flows strangely and travellers become lost for years although they think they have been walking only hours . |
| 21 | No , but I reckon I was in the best year , sort of , for G C S E's this year and the year that 's just gone , were the best years cos they they do all the . |
| 22 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |
| 23 | ‘ We bottle things up for years until they grow out of all proportion . ’ |
| 24 | Vincent 's demands mounted over the years until they seemed to flood in — as they often did — by every other post . |
| 25 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 26 | In 1990 they considerably more than doubled and further increases are planned for 1991 and subsequent years until they approach the full cost of providing courses . |
| 27 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 28 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 29 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 30 | Those people have lived here for about two years and they 'll still say ‘ I 've got to go home because my old man wants his dinner . ’ |