Example sentences of "the years [conj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years since he 'd sunk into alcoholic indifference in the same job , which at his present age was less amazing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Right , erm so do you think the place has changed much in the years that you 've worked here ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I understand why the hon. Gentleman may be frothing at the mouth at the thought that , after all the years that he has spent preparing as shadow arts Minister , were the Labour party to be elected — horror of horrors — it would not be him but Melvyn ’ Time to Dance ’ Bragg who would be Labour 's arts Minister . |
| 9 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 10 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 11 | There was no going back now , no way to rewrite the years as she had known them . |
| 12 | And over the years if you 've been working with the same partner |