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Example sentences for "years went"

  • As years went on, English and French views alike changed.

  • The plan was only partly successful, but as years went on the hospitals were increasingly used by persons other than those of the legally recognised pauper class.

  • It is difficult to give any just idea of the extreme happiness and pleasantness of the home life and of outward circumstances; happiness which only seemed to increase as years went on.

  • And so years went on, until the child was six.

  • Years went by, and Jean was nine years old.

  • Years went by in an ecstasy of physical happiness.

  • As years went on his little figure, in its rusty black, was seen more rarely in the Twickenham lanes, and if he took the air upon the Thames, it was in a sedan-chair that was lifted into a boat.

  • As years went on the poet's love of a country life revived.

  • What mattered it to him that the real Laura as years went on grew middle-aged and changed?

  • But, strange to say, as years went on they disappeared; not because they or their children went away again and left Gaul to itself, but because they adopted the ways and fashions of the country.

  • Bec became a famous centre of learning, and even from Italy and Greece young men journeyed to his school, and, as years went by, he was venerated more and more.

  • They were made the king's magistrates and counsellors, and as years went by there was more and more resentment of all this on the part of the English.

  • As years went on, the excitement of the Germans grew; they believed, and justly believed, that it was a matter of honour to defend the rights of the Duchies.

  • As years went on he became much occupied in local business; he was appointed as the representative of his brother, who was Landrath for the district; in 1845 he was elected one of the members for the Provincial Diet of Pomerania.

  • It did not seem more hopeful as years went by.

  • As years went by, the red Phalaenopsis became a joke.

  • More and more pressing grew the exhortations as years went by and prices mounted higher, until of late they subsided in despair.

  • It soon grew into a custom; and, as years went on, the village came to look on the annual act of tyranny as the most sacred of its institutions.

  • It is only fair to say that these aberrations from good taste and good feeling became less and less frequent as years went on.

  • As years went on, it gained both in ease and in accuracy, but never lost either its force or its resonance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    departing from; footed mouse; laisser faire; large dimensions; means uncommon; never told; physical defects; property rights; separate entity; slight hollow; small stones; then remove from the; white when; will start; years after; years afterward; years afterwards; years earlier; years gone; years later; years male; years old; years past; years previously; years since; years went