Example sentences of "years it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 2 | James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding . |
| 3 | you see you get , over the years it probably expands and it |
| 4 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 5 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 6 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |
| 7 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 8 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |